Karachi: The Sindh government has decided to reopen one of Pakistan’s biggest makeshift facilities in Karachi to isolate and treat the patients of coronavirus.
The Field Isolation Centre at the Expo Centre, Karachi was closed in March this year after a constant decline in new coronavirus cases in the country.
A notification to reopen the Expo Centre’s field isolation facility has been issued by Sindh government’s Health Secretary Dr Kazim Hussain Jatoi.
The notification has been issued on the basis of the decision taken by the Sindh government’s Task Force on coronavirus that recently met with Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in chair. The Task Force took the decision as the part of a set of other strict precautionary measures imposed in Sindh due to constant increase in positivity ratio of coronavirus cases.
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Funds raised were used to establish the Field Isolation Center and arranging PPE, ventilators and medicines
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KARACHI:
The Sindh finance department informed a meeting of the provincial Coronavirus Emergency Fund (CEF) on Monday that thus far over Rs3.68 billion have been collected for the CEF.
Heading the meeting, the provincial chief secretary, Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah, said that the Sindh government had set up the CEF in March 2020. The funds raised were used to establish the Field Isolation Center and arranging Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), protective kits, ventilators and medicines, he said.
Shah further said that the chief minister will be informed of the details regarding the funds collected and subsequent expenditure through a summary. Separately, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said on Monday that he has written to the federal government and sought permission to purchase the coronavirus vaccine directly from China.