Karachi
March 17, 2021
The Sindh cabinet on Tuesday decided to engage private hospitals and laboratories in Covid-19 mass vaccination in the province and to encourage the private health sector to import coronavirus vaccines, allocate human resources and establish vaccination centres, especially in Karachi.
The health department told the cabinet that during the pandemic, the provincial response to the novel coronavirus was characterised by mixed public and private delivery of care. The private health sector played a critical role in providing essential health services, especially when the public sector was so overwhelmed with patients.
On the receipt of the first consignment of the Sinopharm vaccine, the provincial government started its drive to inoculate frontline healthcare workers in the first phase. Recently, the vaccination of 60 plus people has been started, and in the next phase, mass vaccination of all people above 18 will be initiated. This will require the involvement