Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah presiding over a Covid-19 response meeting here on Wednesday directed the health department to make at least 500 monitors and 200 ventilators available in the province apart from completing 50-bed hospital Gulistan-i-Jauhar and 200-bed Infection Disease Control hospital, NIPA latest by June 2020. “We have arranged Rs2.7 billion to upgrade the existing facilities and operationalize two new hospitals in the city and hopefully with their start the government would be able to accommodate a large number of patients, in case of further spread of pandemic.” The meeting was attended by Minister Health DrAzraPechuho, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, PSCMSajid Jamal Abro, Secretary Health ZahidAbbasi, Prof. Dr Bari, and other concerned officers of the health department. Shah was told that in 10 different hospitals in the city 131-bedded ICUs and 174-bedded HDUs have been established. At present 61 ICU beds and nine HDUs beds were vacant. It was also decided to expand the capacity of ICUs, HDUs and isolation beds facilities existing in 21 hospitals located in different hospitals of the province. They include Karachi: Civil, Trauma Center, Ojha, JPMC, Lyari, Services hospital, Indus, NICH, SIUT, AKU, Ziauddin. LUH Hyderabad, PMC Shaheed Benazirabad, Civil hospital Khairpur, GIMSGambat, GMMMC Sukkur, CMC Larkana, SASIMSehwan, DHQ Kotri, Indus hospital Badin, JIMS Jacobabad. At present all these hospitals have 224 ICU beds where 186 additional beds would be added. These hospitals have 268-beded HDU facilities and they would be given additional 268 beds. Similarly, these hospitals have 392 and they have 1143-beded Isolation facilities in which additional 898 beds to be added. To a question, the chief minister was told that 30 monitors, six new ventilators have been provided to Civil hospital Karachi. Work on piped oxygen in medical 1 & 2, wards and Surgical 1 and 2 wards have been completed while negative pressure piping of surgical ICU which would have the capacity of 27-beds has also been completed. 85-beded medical wards 1 & 2 would be made function by providing them 60 more monitors. Similarly, Surgical 1, 2 and 27 ICU and 53-bededHDU would be made function by providing them 23 vents and 53 monitors. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah presiding over a Covid-19 response meeting here on Wednesday directed the health department to make at least 500 monitors and 200 ventilators available in the province apart from completing 50-bed hospital Gulistan-i-Jauhar and 200-bed Infection Disease Control hospital, NIPA latest by June 2020. “We have arranged Rs2.7 billion to upgrade the existing facilities and operationalize two new hospitals in the city and hopefully with their start the government would be able to accommodate a large number of patients, in case of further spread of pandemic.” The meeting was attended by Minister Health DrAzraPechuho, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, PSCMSajid Jamal Abro, Secretary Health ZahidAbbasi, Prof. Dr Bari, and other concerned officers of the health department. Shah was told that in 10 different hospitals in the city 131-bedded ICUs and 174-bedded HDUs have been established. At present 61 ICU beds and nine HDUs beds were vacant. It was also decided to expand the capacity of ICUs, HDUs and isolation beds facilities existing in 21 hospitals located in different hospitals of the province. They include Karachi: Civil, Trauma Center, Ojha, JPMC, Lyari, Services hospital, Indus, NICH, SIUT, AKU, Ziauddin. LUH Hyderabad, PMC Shaheed Benazirabad, Civil hospital Khairpur, GIMSGambat, GMMMC Sukkur, CMC Larkana, SASIMSehwan, DHQ Kotri, Indus hospital Badin, JIMS Jacobabad. At present all these hospitals have 224 ICU beds where 186 additional beds would be added. These hospitals have 268-beded HDU facilities and they would be given additional 268 beds. Similarly, these hospitals have 392 and they have 1143-beded Isolation facilities in which additional 898 beds to be added. To a question, the chief minister was told that 30 monitors, six new ventilators have been provided to Civil hospital Karachi. Work on piped oxygen in medical 1 & 2, wards and Surgical 1 and 2 wards have been completed while negative pressure piping of surgical ICU which would have the capacity of 27-beds has also been completed. 85-beded medical wards 1 & 2 would be made function by providing them 60 more monitors. Similarly, Surgical 1, 2 and 27 ICU and 53-bededHDU would be made function by providing them 23 vents and 53 monitors.
