Mayor inaugurates COVID-19 Infection Disease and Research Center

KARACHI: Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar has inaugurated COVID-19 Infection Disease and Research Centre established at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

Metropolitan Commissioner Dr Syed Saif ur Rehman, Senior Director Medical and Health Services Dr Beerbal Gainani, Medical Superintendent Abbasi Shaheed Hospital Dr Nadeem Rajput and other officials were also present on the occasion.

A 120-bedded center has facilities of isolation ward, HDUs, ICUs and a team of well-reputed doctors, professors and experts, where free of cost COVID-19 testing facility is also being provided at the hospital.

On this occasion, talking to media Waseem Akhtar said that the center would research all infectious diseases as well as treating the patients.

He said that the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation did all these works on its own and assistance by National Disaster Management Authority and philanthropists.

The Mayor said that they would further upgrade the center and appealed to the philanthropists to cooperate with KMC so that the desired results could be achieved soon and the people get treatment of infectious diseases including COVID-19.

Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar assured full support from his government for the Covid-19 Infection Diseases and Research Centre, he added.

The Mayor appreciated doctors and other health workers who made this center functional while fighting from the front.

Responding to a question, Akhtar said that the Sindh government didn’t take him on board while forming mechanisms for the cattle markets in the metropolis.

Waseem Akhtar was of the view that the provincial government should have cooperated with the KMC in completion of the center at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital which is the third biggest hospital of Karachi and cater to the poor patients.