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Pakistani doctors serving abroad help LRH better manage Covid patients
National
May 4, 2021
PESHAWAR: It was during the months of April and May last year that the situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s biggest hospital, the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), seemed to be desperate.
The first wave of COVID-19 had hit the province and the hospital’s performance in treating patients suffering from the deadly disease was noted to be abysmal.
The personal protective equipment was in short supply, staff were not trained about how to protect themselves from getting infected; it was chaos all over.
The situation was worse where it needed to be most efficient and best: the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital. The high mortality rate there was a huge embarrassment for the administration and most agonizing for the families of the sick. It was reported that the ICU mortality rate was 100 percent or very close to it.
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