COVID-19 strikes hard PIMS staff, 89 including 49 doctors infected

ISLAMABAD: In a severe blow to capital city’s health care system, more than 89 staffers including 49 doctors of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital have been found Coronavirus infected.

There is hardly any specialty of PIMS- which is capital city’s largest hospital, that has not been hit with pandemic, making the situation more alarming as infection is spiking at an alarming rate.

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According to the results of tests carried out for the staffers, in the Neuro Surgery department 13 doctors and two nurses have been tested corona positive, sources told The News Today.

The infection has hit the Mother Child Health Center really hard where eight doctors have been found corona positive.

In Pediatrics (Children) Surgery and Operation Theatre 2 doctors and nine nurses have been found corona positive.

In Pediatric Medicine three doctors, one nurse and one sanitary worker have been infected with the virus.

In Nephrology (Kidney) department two doctors, 13 paramedics and three sanitary workers have been found corona positive.

Four doctors of Radiology department, three in Urology and one in Neurology department have been tested corona positive.

Two doctors and one paramedic in Gastroenterology (Stomach and Liver) department have tested corona positive.

In one of the key departments- the Anesthesia and Insensitive Care Unit (ICU) three doctors have been infected with the virus.

Orthopedics (Bones and Joints) department two doctors have been infected with the deadly virus. In the General Medicine seven doctors have been infected.

Oro-Maxillo- Facial Surgery one doctor has been found infected.

In Cardiac Surgery one nurse has been tested COVID-19 positive. In General Surgery team three, one doctors, in administration three doctors, in Ophthalmology (Eye department) two doctors, in Pathology (Labs) one staff nurse has been found corona infected taking the tally of infected working staff to 89.

Many frontline workers including doctors and paramedics have lost their lives while fighting against COVID-19.

Only in last 24 hours two doctors from Lahore, one from Gujranawala and one from Peshawar have given their lives.

The doctors have been complaining that they have not been properly provided Personal Protective Equipment to save themselves from infection.

Doctors have also been opposing lifting of lockdown and feared that situation can get out of control. They had warned that the government before it lifted lockdown.

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