Staff Reporter
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed all the government and private hospital to share the record of all those patients who visit them with the symptoms of Pneumonia so that their further medical investigations could be made to contain coronavirus. He issued these directive while presiding over a meeting of Task Force on Coronavirus here at CM House. The meeting was attended by Minister Health Dr Azra Fazal pechuho, Advisor Law Murtaza Wahab, Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, IG Sindh Mushtaq Maher, PSCM Sajid Jamal Abro, Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shahalwani, Adl Chief Secretary Home Usman Chachar, Secretary Health Zahid, representatives of Corps 5, Rangers, FIA, Airport services, Civil Aviation, WHO, Aga Khan Hospital, Indus Hospital and other concerned institutions. The chief minister directed the health department to issue an advisory to all the public and private hospitals to share the data of the patients visiting them with the symptoms of Pneumonia so their further medical investigation could be conducted. Usman Chachar told the chief minister that on his instructions he had requested the federal government to issue health card/travel declaration to every international passenger so that his/her record for necessary screening could be maintained. He said that the federal government has accepted the chief minister’s proposal and health card/travel declaration cards are being distributed among the passengers in international flights coming to Karachi. The passaenger has to record his travel history of last 14 days in the decalartion. Health Secretary Zahid Abbasi told the chief minister that four tests of suspects were conducted on Monday and all were diagnosed as negative. The coronavirus patient declared on Sunday had 27 contacts, of them eight have been tested and declared as negative while 19 contacts tests were yet to be done. To a question, the chief minister was told that three patients of coronavirus were under treatment, of them two have recovered while the recovery of third one was slow. The chief minister directed health department to give proper care and treatment to the patient whose recovery rate was slow.
