PM Perfoms Ground breaking for 250-bed Isolation hospital
Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday did ground breaking for the development of a 252-bed Isolation Hospital and communicable disease Center here because the tally of coronavirus cases reached 25 within the federal capital, Pakistan Construction & Quarry Learnt.
Accompanied by Special Assistant to PM on Health Dr Zafar Mirza, Chairman National Disaster Management Authority general officer Muhammad Afzal, Director General Frontier Works Organization Major General Kamal Azfar, Chief Commissioner Islamabad Amir Ahmed Ali and Chinese Ambassador in Pakistan Yao Jing, the prime minister also inspected a 50-bed quarantine facility, found out at Pak-China Friendship Center.
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The isolation hospital would be constructed by the Frontier Works Organization near National Institute of Health over 40-kanal land, using the pre-fabricated light guage steel structure. The hospital is predicted to finish by 10th of May this year. The Chinese government would fund the development of the power that had extended the help of around $4 million. The project consists of seven patients blocks – four male and three female – a laboratory and diagnostics block and another for accommodation of doctors and paramedics. It would be developed as fully air-tight facility with all doors to be operated through sensors to avoid any human contact.
Two localities of Bhara Kahu and Shahzad Town of Islamabad had been sealed where multiple number of Covid-19 patients had been detected. The city administration had already started a disinfection operation of Islamabad, ranging from PIMS hospital, then Bara Kahu, Fruit and Vegetable Market and other areas.
The NDMA chairman also apprised the prime minister about the logistics arrangements being made to deal with the growing needs of the medical equipment across the country including the ventilators, PCR equipment, masks et al. As of today, a complete of 1102 patients had been tested positive of Covid-19 disease including 417 in Sindh, Punjab 323, Balochistan 131, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 121, Gilgit Baltistan 84, Islamabad 25 and one in Azad Kahsmir.