Patients suffering from other diseases being ignored due to coronavirus: Dr Faisal
He urged people to observe social distancing and SOPs recommended by the government
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Prime Minister s Focal Person on COVID-19 Dr Faisal on Thursday said that the patients suffering from other diseases were being ignored due to novel coronavirus pandemic.
In a media briefing, after National Coordination Committee meeting regarding COVID-19, in Islamabad on Thursday, he said that the prevention of coronavirus is in our hands.
The focal person urged the people adopt precautionary measures. “We have ventilators and other facilities otherwise the pandemic would get out of our hands.”
Dr Faisal said undoubtedly, tally of corona cases has gone up in the country, which has put some pressure on our health system, but it should be clear that our health system has the capacity to handle the situation and we have yet not reached to a saturated point.
He urged people to observe social distancing and SOPs recommended by the government for the containment of the pandemic.
He said that the number of testing capacity was also being increased day by day due to which new cases were being detected in different areas. He however said that there was sufficient availability of ventilators, medical equipment and health staff at hospitals.
He said that the government was gradually improving its health system with best possible preparedness plan and training of health professionals. He added decisions were made on daily basis keeping in view the prevailing situation with the inputs from international and local health experts.
He said that all possible measures were being adopted to control COVID-19 to avoid further load on already overburdened health system of the country.
He said that strategies were made to control corona keeping in view the global information, focusing on data with integration of local data in a scientific way. He added input from concerned stakeholders was also considered to avoid any missing aspect.
Dr Faisal said the government had effective disease combat plan with future projection on the disease, adding, the plans were changed in accordance with the changing situations to get better results.
He advised the citizens to strictly follow the social distancing and other precautionary measures to stop increasing local transmission of COVID-19 in the country.
He said the government was taking effective and prompt measures, and assured that joint efforts would be made against Coronavirus.
The government had provided disease diagnostic facilities in various cities, he added.
Dr Faisal Sultan said the government had tried its level best to control the disease and prepared standard operating procedures (SOPs), which were being shared for their implementation at different levels.
