SIUT playing frontline role to combat Coronavirus

SIUT playing frontline role to combat COVID19

SIUT screens 3,600 patients and only 25 patients turned out positive

Pak Chronicle Report

Karachi

COVID19 or commonly known as Coronavirus has completely paralyzed the whole world. It has created a sense of insecurity and helplessness almost everywhere.

The most developed economic countries like USA, UK and Europe are struggling to cope with the pandemic.

The priorities of these countries were wars and weapons. Now when they are in grip of the corona pandemic, their health infrastructure is completely shattered. They are short of ventilators to save their ailing populations.

According to a press release issued on Friday by Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) in our country when this pandemic started our preventive measures were half-hearted except in Sindh.

Our health facilities are already meager and not in position to face this disaster so the nation needed coordinated and prompt measures to face this challenge, it further stated.

In this high time, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation started playing the front line role in serving the humanity.

The SIUT started an exclusive coronavirus clinic on 18^th March. Till date more than 3,600 patients have been screened and only 25 patients turned out positive. Of these nine patients with minor symptoms were advised home quarantine, 11 patients were admitted in isolation ward and five patients were admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) who needed ventilator support.

In the coming days more and more ventilators and ICU facilities would be needed to combat coronavirus, concluded the press release.