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Karachi, March 09, 2020 (PPI-OT): Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed all the government and private hospitals to share the record of all those patients who visit them with the symptoms of Pneumonia so that their further medical investigations could be made to contain coronavirus.
He issued these directive while presiding over a meeting of Task Force on Coronavirus here at CM House. The meeting was attended by Minister Health Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho and other top officials. The chief minister directed the health department to issue an advisory to all the public and private hospitals to share the data of the patients visiting them with the symptoms of Pneumonia so that their further medical investigation could be conducted.
Additional Chief Secretary Home Usman Chachar told the chief minister that on his instructions, he had requested the federal government to issue health card/travel declaration to every international passenger so that his/her record for necessary screening could be maintained.
He said that the federal government had accepted the chief minister’s proposal and health card/travel declaration cards were being distributed among the passengers in international flights coming to Karachi. The passenger has to record his travel history of last 14 days in the declaration.
Health Secretary Zahid Abbasi told the chief minister that four tests of conronavirus suspects were conducted on Monday and all were diagnosed as negative. The coronavirus patient declared on Sunday had 27 contacts, of them eight have been tested and declared as negative while 19 contacts tests were yet to be done.
To a question, the chief minister was told that three patients of coronavirus were under treatment, of them two had recovered while the recovery of third one was slow. The chief minister directed health department to give proper care and treatment to the patients whose recovery rate was slow.
It was pointed out that so far 135 tests had been conducted in Sindh, of them four had been diagnosed as positive and 112 declared as negative. At present, 230 pilgrims had been kept in quarantine. The chief minister was also told that 59 suspects who had travelled with four coronavirus patients of Sindh had been traced and their list shared with all the deputy commissioners for contacting them and conducting their necessary medical investigations.
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