Our Correspondents Abbottabad/Peshawar
Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH) administration Saturday added 40 more beds for the Covid-19 ward to cater to the needs of the region owing to the worsening situation.
This was decided in a meeting held at ATH chaired by Medical Director Dr. Alamzeb Khan Swati.
The meeting was also attended by Hospital Director Dr. Nadeem Akhtar and Heads of all departments.
In the meeting, the growing number of Covid-19 cases, some new strategies to be adopted to provide complete treatment facilities to patients also came under discussion.
Although the current strength of Covid-19 beds was increased by evacuating the Medical D unit due to the suddenly increased inflow of Covid patients in the hospital, today further 40 beds with oxygen points and monitors were added on an emergency basis by evacuating the Gynae-C unit.
ATH administration also formed a Covid-19 action committee headed by Dr. Irum Sarwar to take immediate steps and improve Coronavirus protocols.
It was also proposed to evacuate more wards for infected patients and allocate them only for Covid-19.
The coronavirus cases were on rise in Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) and currently 71 patients of Covid-19 were under treatment in the hospital.
A spokesman of the hospital told media men here on Saturday that the KTH has 106 beds for corona patients while the number of coronary heart disease patients was being increased with the each passing day.
He urged upon the public to adopt preventive measures of the virus and strictly follow the corona standard operating procedures (SOPs) issued by the government.
He said those who had not yet been vaccinated against coronavirus should get themselves vaccinated as soon as possible.
A total of 949,021 people have been vaccinated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 712,730 people have been given the first dose of Sino Pham, an official of the Health Department said here Saturday
He said that 325,143 people were also given second dose of Sino Pham and more than 22, 94,601 people have been given the first dose of Sinovac and 397,356 people were given the second dose of Sinovac.
He said that 2,1902 people have also been vaccinated with Cansino vaccine and the first dose of Astrazeneca vaccine was given to 153,713 people in Peshawar.
