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Rise of 182 cases in less than 12 hours is very concerning
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Because the curve in now peaking and the only way from here is down.
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کرونا: مولوی کے انکارپر ڈاکٹر نے غسل دیا اور نماز جنازہ پڑھا کر خود تدفین کی
پشاور(ویب ڈیسک) خیبر پختونخوا کے ضلع شانگلہ میں ڈاکٹر ثنااللہ نے انسان دوستی کی عظیم مثال قائم کر دی، میڈیا کے مطابق جب شانگلہ میں ایک شخص کا کرونا وائرس سے انتقال ہوا تو مولوی نے اسکی میت کو غسل اور کفن دینے سے یہ کہتے ہوئے انکار کر دیا کہ اسے ڈر لگتا ہے۔
اس موقع پر ڈاکٹر ثنا اللہ خود اگے آئے، انہوں نے میت کو نا صرف غسل دیا بلکہ جنازہ پڑھا کر دفن بھی کیا۔ میڈیا سے بات کرتے ہوئے ڈاکٹر حافظ ثنا اللہ نے بتایا کہ وہ خود حافظ قرآن ہیں اور انہیں معلوم ہے کہ میت کو غسل کیسے دیا جاتا ہے اور نماز جنازہ کیسے پڑھائی جاتی ہے۔
ڈاکٹر حافظ ثنا اللہ نے بتایا کہ انہوں نے یونیسف کے زیر انتظام ایک تربیت مکمل کی تھی جس میں بتایا گیا تھا کہ ایسے شخص کو غسل کیسے دیا جا سکتا ہے اور وہ تمام احتیاطی تدابیر انہوں نے اختیار کی تھیں.
یاد رہے ضلع شانگلہ کی تحصیل بشام میں تعینات ڈاکٹر حافظ ثنا اللہ سرکاری سپتال میں کررونا وائرس سے متاثرہ مریضوں کے علاج پر مامور ہیں۔
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پشاور(ویب ڈیسک) خیبر پختونخوا کے ضلع شانگلہ میں ڈاکٹر ثنااللہ نے انسان دوستی کی عظیم مثال قائم کر دی، میڈیا کے مطابق جب شانگلہ میں ایک شخص کا کرونا وائرس سے انتقال ہوا تو مولوی نے اسکی میت کو غسل اور کفن دینے سے یہ کہتے ہوئے انکار کر دیا کہ اسے ڈر لگتا ہے۔
اس موقع پر ڈاکٹر ثنا اللہ خود اگے آئے، انہوں نے میت کو نا صرف غسل دیا بلکہ جنازہ پڑھا کر دفن بھی کیا۔ میڈیا سے بات کرتے ہوئے ڈاکٹر حافظ ثنا اللہ نے بتایا کہ وہ خود حافظ قرآن ہیں اور انہیں معلوم ہے کہ میت کو غسل کیسے دیا جاتا ہے اور نماز جنازہ کیسے پڑھائی جاتی ہے۔
ڈاکٹر حافظ ثنا اللہ نے بتایا کہ انہوں نے یونیسف کے زیر انتظام ایک تربیت مکمل کی تھی جس میں بتایا گیا تھا کہ ایسے شخص کو غسل کیسے دیا جا سکتا ہے اور وہ تمام احتیاطی تدابیر انہوں نے اختیار کی تھیں.
یاد رہے ضلع شانگلہ کی تحصیل بشام میں تعینات ڈاکٹر حافظ ثنا اللہ سرکاری سپتال میں کررونا وائرس سے متاثرہ مریضوں کے علاج پر مامور ہیں۔
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مسلمان کے طور پہ کیا ڈاکٹر کے طور پہ نہیں۔ اور مولوی نے انکار نہیں کیا۔ انہیں اجازت نہیں کورونا کے مریضوں کی میت کو غسل دینے کی۔کرونا: مولوی کے انکارپر ڈاکٹر نے غسل دیا اور نماز جنازہ پڑھا کر خود تدفین کی
پشاور(ویب ڈیسک) خیبر پختونخوا کے ضلع شانگلہ میں ڈاکٹر ثنااللہ نے انسان دوستی کی عظیم مثال قائم کر دی، میڈیا کے مطابق جب شانگلہ میں ایک شخص کا کرونا وائرس سے انتقال ہوا تو مولوی نے اسکی میت کو غسل اور کفن دینے سے یہ کہتے ہوئے انکار کر دیا کہ اسے ڈر لگتا ہے۔
اس موقع پر ڈاکٹر ثنا اللہ خود اگے آئے، انہوں نے میت کو نا صرف غسل دیا بلکہ جنازہ پڑھا کر دفن بھی کیا۔ میڈیا سے بات کرتے ہوئے ڈاکٹر حافظ ثنا اللہ نے بتایا کہ وہ خود حافظ قرآن ہیں اور انہیں معلوم ہے کہ میت کو غسل کیسے دیا جاتا ہے اور نماز جنازہ کیسے پڑھائی جاتی ہے۔
ڈاکٹر حافظ ثنا اللہ نے بتایا کہ انہوں نے یونیسف کے زیر انتظام ایک تربیت مکمل کی تھی جس میں بتایا گیا تھا کہ ایسے شخص کو غسل کیسے دیا جا سکتا ہے اور وہ تمام احتیاطی تدابیر انہوں نے اختیار کی تھیں.
یاد رہے ضلع شانگلہ کی تحصیل بشام میں تعینات ڈاکٹر حافظ ثنا اللہ سرکاری سپتال میں کررونا وائرس سے متاثرہ مریضوں کے علاج پر مامور ہیں۔
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ڈاکٹروں کی تعریف ضرور کریں لیکن دوسروں کو بلا وجہ بے عزت کر کہ نہیں
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Pakistan's guidelines on home isolation against WHO, Chinese recommendations
Asif Chaudhry
April 10, 2020
A railway cart turned into an isolation facility.
LAHORE: The federal government’s new guidelines to the provinces to isolate confirmed Covid-19 patients at homes are against the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the `strong advice’ of a Chinese team which visited Pakistan recently.
It has recommended treatment of only serious patients at health facilities and insisted on home isolation for confirmed patients with mild infections.
“Asymptomatic and mild cases can be managed at home under the home isolation criteria”, read the guidelines of the federal government.
According to a senior health official, the five-page guidelines are largely beyond the comprehension of common patients, primarily the semi-literate and uneducated.
He said in their meetings with Pakistani counterparts, the Chinese experts had rejected the idea of home isolation of confirmed patients.
Similarly, the World Health Organization (WHO) has also recommended isolation of patients carrying virus at proper health facilities.
The Chinese delegation had told the local experts that the doctors in Wuhan, China, had made the same blunder by keeping positive patients at homes in the early days of the spread of the coronavirus virus that led to worst epidemic.
“Both the WHO and Chinese experts had strongly recommended isolation of the confirmed patients at field hospitals/quarantines or at least at well-equipped hospitals to make sure they are treated under strict protocols,” the official said.
The federal government on the other hand wants the provincial governments to implement its directions in letter and spirit.
A senior official told Dawn the matter came under discussion at various high-level meetings of the Punjab government when some senior experts declared the guidelines of the federal health ministry ‘controversial and risky’.
They cited some recent cases in Punjab where patients during home isolation not only arranged private functions but also met relatives, transmitting virus among healthy people.
The experts quoted a case of Gujrat district as a strong reference where four Covid-19 patients coming from abroad had infected over 40 healthy people.
Such cases were also noted among Tableeghi Jamaat members when they left the annual congregation at Raiwind Markaz and returned to their home districts where several confirmed cases were reported later.
During the last week, Punjab witnessed an alarming spike in the confirmed cases and the reason is said to be the local transmission of the virus when patients are isolated at homes, the official said.
He said the Punjab government had made serious efforts to enhance capacity for the patients by establishing 1000-bed field hospital in Lahore, and providing quarantine centres at various districts besides allocating beds at major state-run hospitals across the province.
“The purpose is to accommodate the maximum number of confirmed patients at these facilities to stop transmission of the virus,” he said, adding, in the presence of such facilities, the federal government’s policy of home isolation was mindboggling.
During inquiries, he said, it transpired that the patients testing positive for the virus and quarantined at homes had blatantly violated the protocols risking lives of others.
The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination (NHSR&C) had issued 40-point guidelines on March 26 titled “home isolation during Covid-19 outbreak”.
Later, it sent revised guidelines on April 2, recommending isolation of the confirmed patients of Corona at home.
The official said the Chinese experts had shared their experiences of combating Covid-19. The Corona Expert Advisory Group (CEAG) of Punjab discussed with them the issue of home isolation for asymptomatic or mild cases which is a social demand by educated and affluent families .
“The Chinese experts warned that there is risk of noncompliance to isolation SOPs associated with home isolation and can lead to family clusters causing further spread of the disease”, said the official.
The Chinese experts also recommended that these patients should only be discharged if two PCR samples were tested negative 24 hours apart and they should be further quarantined at home for another two weeks as a preventive measure.
The PCR of these patients should be repeated at day 28 to rule out the possibility of false negative test.
The WHO guidelines circulated worldwide on March 17 said: “All laboratory confirmed cases be isolated and cared for in a health care facility.”
It further said: “If all mild cases cannot be isolated in health facilities, then those with mild illness and no risk factors may need to be isolated in non-traditional facilities, such as repurposed hotels, stadiums or gymnasiums where they can remain until their symptoms resolve and laboratory tests for COVID-19 virus are negative”, further read the WHO guidelines.
Published in Dawn, April 10th, 2020
Asif Chaudhry
April 10, 2020
A railway cart turned into an isolation facility.
LAHORE: The federal government’s new guidelines to the provinces to isolate confirmed Covid-19 patients at homes are against the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the `strong advice’ of a Chinese team which visited Pakistan recently.
It has recommended treatment of only serious patients at health facilities and insisted on home isolation for confirmed patients with mild infections.
“Asymptomatic and mild cases can be managed at home under the home isolation criteria”, read the guidelines of the federal government.
According to a senior health official, the five-page guidelines are largely beyond the comprehension of common patients, primarily the semi-literate and uneducated.
He said in their meetings with Pakistani counterparts, the Chinese experts had rejected the idea of home isolation of confirmed patients.
Similarly, the World Health Organization (WHO) has also recommended isolation of patients carrying virus at proper health facilities.
The Chinese delegation had told the local experts that the doctors in Wuhan, China, had made the same blunder by keeping positive patients at homes in the early days of the spread of the coronavirus virus that led to worst epidemic.
“Both the WHO and Chinese experts had strongly recommended isolation of the confirmed patients at field hospitals/quarantines or at least at well-equipped hospitals to make sure they are treated under strict protocols,” the official said.
The federal government on the other hand wants the provincial governments to implement its directions in letter and spirit.
A senior official told Dawn the matter came under discussion at various high-level meetings of the Punjab government when some senior experts declared the guidelines of the federal health ministry ‘controversial and risky’.
They cited some recent cases in Punjab where patients during home isolation not only arranged private functions but also met relatives, transmitting virus among healthy people.
The experts quoted a case of Gujrat district as a strong reference where four Covid-19 patients coming from abroad had infected over 40 healthy people.
Such cases were also noted among Tableeghi Jamaat members when they left the annual congregation at Raiwind Markaz and returned to their home districts where several confirmed cases were reported later.
During the last week, Punjab witnessed an alarming spike in the confirmed cases and the reason is said to be the local transmission of the virus when patients are isolated at homes, the official said.
He said the Punjab government had made serious efforts to enhance capacity for the patients by establishing 1000-bed field hospital in Lahore, and providing quarantine centres at various districts besides allocating beds at major state-run hospitals across the province.
“The purpose is to accommodate the maximum number of confirmed patients at these facilities to stop transmission of the virus,” he said, adding, in the presence of such facilities, the federal government’s policy of home isolation was mindboggling.
During inquiries, he said, it transpired that the patients testing positive for the virus and quarantined at homes had blatantly violated the protocols risking lives of others.
The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination (NHSR&C) had issued 40-point guidelines on March 26 titled “home isolation during Covid-19 outbreak”.
Later, it sent revised guidelines on April 2, recommending isolation of the confirmed patients of Corona at home.
The official said the Chinese experts had shared their experiences of combating Covid-19. The Corona Expert Advisory Group (CEAG) of Punjab discussed with them the issue of home isolation for asymptomatic or mild cases which is a social demand by educated and affluent families .
“The Chinese experts warned that there is risk of noncompliance to isolation SOPs associated with home isolation and can lead to family clusters causing further spread of the disease”, said the official.
The Chinese experts also recommended that these patients should only be discharged if two PCR samples were tested negative 24 hours apart and they should be further quarantined at home for another two weeks as a preventive measure.
The PCR of these patients should be repeated at day 28 to rule out the possibility of false negative test.
The WHO guidelines circulated worldwide on March 17 said: “All laboratory confirmed cases be isolated and cared for in a health care facility.”
It further said: “If all mild cases cannot be isolated in health facilities, then those with mild illness and no risk factors may need to be isolated in non-traditional facilities, such as repurposed hotels, stadiums or gymnasiums where they can remain until their symptoms resolve and laboratory tests for COVID-19 virus are negative”, further read the WHO guidelines.
Published in Dawn, April 10th, 2020
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Very depressing to see such high deaths and such low recoveries in Punjab. Would could be the reason?
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Pakistan may begin testing asymptomatic people, says Asad Umar
Dawn.com
April 11, 2020
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar announced on Saturday that the future course of action in country's fight against Covid-19 will be determined after the National Coordination Committee (NCC) session on Monday. He added that the cabinet will be meeting Prime Minister Imran Khan before that on Sunday to seek his counsel regarding country's measures against the virus. — DawnNewsTV
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said on Saturday Pakistan now had the capacity to conduct at least 100,000 Covid-19 tests in 26 laboratories situated across the country, adding that the government may begin testing asymptomatic individuals moving forward.
"We've only been testing visibly symptomatic patients thus far. It is possible that we will start testing asymptomatic people going forward provided they came in contact with those who have already tested positive," Umar said during a press conference alongside Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza.
He further revealed that the government had procured and distributed 14 new Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test machines among the provinces.
"Yesterday we received material for 100,000 test kits, 50,000 of these will be given to Sindh while 25,000 to Balochistan."
Citing South Korea's mass testing and contact tracing as an example of a successful strategy against the coronavirus, Asad said that Pakistan also needed to conduct mass testing and contact tracing of those tested positive to curb the spread of Covid-19.
He said a future course of action on the country's fight against Covid-19, including the curbs on movement and businesses, will be determined after the National Coordination Committee (NCC) session on Monday.
He added that the cabinet will be meeting Prime Minister Imran Khan before that on Sunday to seek his counsel regarding the country's measures against the virus.
"We will present our recommendations to the prime minister on measures such as quarantining, contact tracing and mass testing tomorrow and seek his point of view on these matters," Umar said.
"Additionally, NCC will conduct its session on Monday and we expect chief ministers of all four provinces and Azad Jammu and Kashmir to be present there. My hope is that we can constitute a unified national plan going forward," Umar added, reminding the nation that a full team at the National Command and Operation Centre was working in close coordination with the provinces at all times.
Umar concluded by noting that the government's revenue had fallen by about one-third from the economic fallout of Covid-19 but that remittances continued to pour in, for which he thanked overseas Pakistanis.
Easing restrictions right now would be a grave mistake: SAPM Mirza
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza, meanwhile, argued that easing restrictions right now would be a grave mistake for a country that is still fighting against Covid-19.
"Some people look at our numbers and think we haven't had as many cases and deaths as other countries. This sort of thinking is a serious mistake," Mirza said, cautioning that new cases and deaths will soar if restrictions were relaxed.
"In fact we should consider adding to our existing restrictions, if we can," advised Mirza.
Mirza also revealed that Serena Hotels and Habib Bank Ltd (HBL) are starting a new programme titled 'Jazba-e-Khidmat'.
As part of it, Serena Hotels around the country have partnered up with HBL to provide food to medical professionals working on the frontlines in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Dawn.com
April 11, 2020
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar announced on Saturday that the future course of action in country's fight against Covid-19 will be determined after the National Coordination Committee (NCC) session on Monday. He added that the cabinet will be meeting Prime Minister Imran Khan before that on Sunday to seek his counsel regarding country's measures against the virus. — DawnNewsTV
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said on Saturday Pakistan now had the capacity to conduct at least 100,000 Covid-19 tests in 26 laboratories situated across the country, adding that the government may begin testing asymptomatic individuals moving forward.
"We've only been testing visibly symptomatic patients thus far. It is possible that we will start testing asymptomatic people going forward provided they came in contact with those who have already tested positive," Umar said during a press conference alongside Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza.
He further revealed that the government had procured and distributed 14 new Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test machines among the provinces.
"Yesterday we received material for 100,000 test kits, 50,000 of these will be given to Sindh while 25,000 to Balochistan."
Citing South Korea's mass testing and contact tracing as an example of a successful strategy against the coronavirus, Asad said that Pakistan also needed to conduct mass testing and contact tracing of those tested positive to curb the spread of Covid-19.
He said a future course of action on the country's fight against Covid-19, including the curbs on movement and businesses, will be determined after the National Coordination Committee (NCC) session on Monday.
He added that the cabinet will be meeting Prime Minister Imran Khan before that on Sunday to seek his counsel regarding the country's measures against the virus.
"We will present our recommendations to the prime minister on measures such as quarantining, contact tracing and mass testing tomorrow and seek his point of view on these matters," Umar said.
"Additionally, NCC will conduct its session on Monday and we expect chief ministers of all four provinces and Azad Jammu and Kashmir to be present there. My hope is that we can constitute a unified national plan going forward," Umar added, reminding the nation that a full team at the National Command and Operation Centre was working in close coordination with the provinces at all times.
Umar concluded by noting that the government's revenue had fallen by about one-third from the economic fallout of Covid-19 but that remittances continued to pour in, for which he thanked overseas Pakistanis.
Easing restrictions right now would be a grave mistake: SAPM Mirza
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza, meanwhile, argued that easing restrictions right now would be a grave mistake for a country that is still fighting against Covid-19.
"Some people look at our numbers and think we haven't had as many cases and deaths as other countries. This sort of thinking is a serious mistake," Mirza said, cautioning that new cases and deaths will soar if restrictions were relaxed.
"In fact we should consider adding to our existing restrictions, if we can," advised Mirza.
Mirza also revealed that Serena Hotels and Habib Bank Ltd (HBL) are starting a new programme titled 'Jazba-e-Khidmat'.
As part of it, Serena Hotels around the country have partnered up with HBL to provide food to medical professionals working on the frontlines in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
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Is it overall capacity or per day. Because if its overall, then its not sufficient imo.
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How are the dead bodies of deceased being dealt with?
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