KARACHI: Hospitals in Karachi on Tuesday turned down Sindh government’s request to allocate 20% of beds for coronavirus patients at leading private health facilities in the metropolis, a report published in The News said.
In a meeting with Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, The Private Hospitals and Clinics Association suggested that the provincial authorities should reserve some public tertiary-care hospitals completely as isolation and treatment centres for such patients.
Citing the unavailability of authentic testing kits for diagnosing coronavirus, an acute shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), an inadequate number of ventilators and the absence of experimental drugs, the association members and some other private medical institutions suggested that the provincial government should prepare critical care units at its field isolation centre at the Expo Center Karachi, for which they were ready to provide ventilators as well as doctors and paramedics to the health department.
