2nd COVID-19 wave overwhelms Pak Punjab health care system
ANI
03 May 2021, 02:03 GMT+10
Punjab [Pakistan], May 2 (ANI): The rising COVID-19 cases has overwhelmed the health care system in several cities in Pakistan s Punjab as almost all ventilators in Gujranwala are occupied while the occupancy rate in Lahore was 81.5 per cent.
Punjab is the worst-hit province by COVID-19 in Pakistan with over 3,05,000 infection reported so far.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore, Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid almost all ventilators in Gujranwala were occupied while the occupancy rate in Lahore was 81.5 per cent, Dawn reported.
Giving details of healthcare facilities, Rashid said that there were 2,730 beds in district headquarters hospitals (DHQs) in Punjab of which around 600 were currently occupied. There were 97 ventilators in the DHQs of which 20 were in use, she added.