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In this file photo, a health worker gives a hepatitis vaccination to a flood affected boy at a makeshift school on higher ground in southern Sindh. AFP
KARACHI: Health experts and medical scientists have warned that the hepatitis B and C viral infections are a “pandemic within a pandemic”, which are claiming three to four times more lives in Pakistan than Covid-19. They called for immediate measures for the prevention, screening and treatment of the disease.
They were speaking at an awareness session held on Tuesday at the Karachi Press Club in collaboration with Pakistan GI and Liver Diseases Society (PGLDS) in connection with World Hepatitis Day 2021, to highlight the global burden of viral hepatitis and to call for its elimination from the world by 2030. They stressed the need to have equal focus on hepatitis B and C.
This is the second death of a doctor within three days in Karachi.
Dr Firoz Ahmed Qasmi, a senior anaesthetist, was associated with Dow University of Health Sciences for eight years.
“He remained in the hospital’s intensive care unit for five days after being diagnosed with coronavirus on the first day of Eid,” said a spokesperson for the DUHS.
During treatment, Dr Firoz also developed a rare inflammatory disease of the brain, he added.
Earlier, Dr Iqbal Noori associated with a private hospital died of Covid-19 on Friday after remaining hospitalised for over a week.
A Dow Medical College graduate, Dr Noori was 54.
Karachi hospitals brim over with corona patients
July 20, 2021
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: No beds were available for the COVID-19 patients at four leading public and private healthcare facilities in Karachi on Monday as the number of patients infected by the highly transmissible Delta variant continued to rise, officials said.
Officials said more beds were being reserved for patients, while closed facilities were also being made operational to deal with the surging cases. “Infectious Diseases Hospital and Research Center at NIPA, Indus Hospital Karachi, Aga Khan Hospital and Expo Center Karachi are packed to capacity.
The case positivity remained 25.7 percent in Karachi, according to Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah. The official said owing to growing number of cases, the administration of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) had reopened its dental hospital in front of the University of Karachi for COVID-19 patients, while an 80-bed pulmonology ward was also being converted i
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