Staff Reporter
Parliamentary Secretary for Health Dr. Nausheen Hamid Thursday said that the federal government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with leading private hospitals in the country to combat the coronavirus pandemic and to facilitate patients of coronavirus with free treatment.
Talking to PTV news channel, she said health department and leading private hospitals in capital have finally reached an agreement, according to which these private health facilities will treat needy and deserving Covid-19 patients at the government’s expense.
Ministry of health is under discussion with the private hospitals in this regard which would be implement soon, she said, adding, any patient who will be refereed from government hospitals to private hospital to get free of cost health facilities there.
She said that these private hospitals would established separate Covid-19 wards with HDUs, ICUs and ventilators and all these health facilities have their own laboratories for the testing and diagnosis of Covid-19.
Nausheen explained that needy Covid-19 patients would be referred to private facilities once all the beds at the public and charity hospitals were filled.
Replying a Question related to capacity, she said we have increased our capacity in government hospitals with increase number of beds, wards and ventilators.
However, on the other hand, the capacity of coronavirus patients are less than government hospitals and no doubt in private hospitals they have just limited space for Covid-19 patients, she added.
