Muhammad Usman
As many as 316258 corona patients are recovered in the public sector hospitals being run under the control of Specialized and Primary & Secondary Healthcare departments, while 531 patients are recovered during the last 24 hours.
Muhammad Aamir Jan, Secretary Specialized Healthcare Punjab said this while chairing a high-level meeting here on Saturday.
The additional secretaries Dr Asif Tufail and Amir Ghazi were present in the meeting. He said that in view of Corona pandemic, the department has made sufficient arrangements that out of 6515 beds reserved in all govt.
hospitals for corona patients, 4893 beds were lying unoccupied. Likewise, 1398 beds are reserved by the government.
hospitals of Lahore and 987 beds were vacant so far. The Secretary SHC&MED said that the department had arranged 3024 beds in Isolation wards of all govt. hospitals in the province, out of which, 2479 beds were vacant.
However, 370 beds for corona patients are reserved in isolation wards set up by the government. hospitals of Lahore and 289 beds are unoccupied.
In addition, 2782 beds are also reserved in HDU for patients suffering from Covid-19 in all the hospitals of government and 1940 beds are vacant while, in hospitals of Lahore, 799 beds reserved in HDU and 565 beds are unoccupied, Aamir Jan added.
The Secretary SHC said the health department had arranged 709 ventilators for corona patients in all hospitals of the provincial government, of which 235 ventilators were under use while 474 were unoccupied.
Around 229 ventilators are reserved in Lahore hospitals, of which 96 are occupied and 133 ventilators are vacant, said Secretary Specialized Healthcare.
