Our Correspondent
Quetta
Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lt General Muhammad Afzal facilities are being increased at the hospitals to deal with coronavirus pandemic. Speaking to the media men in Quetta on Tuesday, Chairman NDMA, Lt. General Muhammad Azfal said that Pakistan can overcome the pandemic if the SOPs were implemented in the true spirit.
He ensured strict implementation of the SOPs on the Eidul Azha and added that there is no other way till now to overcome the COVID-19 outbreak. Replying to a question, he said that nine air crafts of the NDMA are taking part in anti-locusts spray operation and vowed to control over the swarms of the locusts.
Medical Superintendent Bolan Medical College Hospital (BMC), Dr. Saleem Akhter Abro, and Medical superintendent Fatimah Jinnah Chest Hospital Dr. Noorullah Musakhail briefed the Chairman NDMA upon his arrival to their respective hospitals.
Chairman NDMA, on the occasion, said that doctors, paramedics, pharmacists, nurses, and paramedics are our frontline heroes. They are the people who are rendering matchless sacrifices in the line of their duties to defeat the pandemic. “Government values their services and would always be there to own them,” he maintained.
He said that the federal government was taking all possible steps to provide the best health facilities at their doorsteps to the patients including those affected by the Corona Virus. “Efforts are also afoot to increase the capacity of the hospitals and other available health care units in the wake of the current situation arising from the deadly virus.
Lieutenant General Mohammad Afzal said that under the supervision of Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Kamal, Chief Secretary Balochistan Faseel Asghar.
