Staff Reporter The working capacity of The Indus Hospital (TIH) to make diagnosis of coronavirus (Covid-19) infection has been tripled as the National Institute of Virology, Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD), University of Karachi joined hands with the hospital. The National Institute of Virology has provided four Real-Time PCR machines and qualified virology experts to the hospital so that working burden of diagnosis could be handled easily. Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, Director of International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi stated this on Saturday while speaking at the meeting of virology experts held at the National Institute of Virology. The meeting was also attended by Dr. Muhammad Rashid, senior research officer of the institute of virology, Dr. Ammar Ather and other scientists. Prof. Choudhary said, “The hospital, which is working in collaboration with the Government of Sindh, was facing immense working-load in the process of diagnosis due to increasing number of coronavirus cases in Sindh.”
