NCOC decides to gear up public awareness drive to contain COVID-19 spread
The NCOC meeting chaired by Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Thursday decided to gear up media campaign for public awareness for containing the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the country, Dunya News reported.
The NCOC meeting chaired by Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar discussed Epi Curve Chart data, recommendations for NCC meeting on negative list, standard operating procedures (SOPs) for opening of schools and comparative analysis.
The forum noted that the awareness campaign on COVID-19 to make the public realize that the deadly disease had not vanished rather lingering on which needed to be dealt with care and compliance of SOPs.
The NCOC was briefed that in mid-June, as the number of COVID-19 patients boomed and the burden on hospitals increased, the government took practical steps to add 2150 oxygenated beds across the country by July 31 to increase the capacity of hospitals.
As a result of the visits of special teams to all the provinces including AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), efforts were made to put in place practical measures to add 2850 oxygenated beds.
So far, 2608 new oxygenated beds have been added to hospitals across the country, including 80 in AJK, 264 in Balochistan, 100 in GB, 400 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 787 in Punjab, 351 in Sindh and 626 in Islamabad.
Moreover, ramp up was underway to add 242 more new oxygenated beds (10 in KP, 17 in Punjab and 215 in Sindh).
