KARACHI: Sindh Government Spokesman, Murtaza Wahab has wished that if the incumbent government had listened to the provincial administration’s advice, the situation would have been very different from what it is now.
Murtaza Wahab, while addressing a press conference in Karachi said, “When the first case was identified on 26th February, the Sindh government immediately formed a task force.”
He emphasized that between February and now, 64,000 people were screened at airports. “It is not our responsibility to handle airports but Sindh government decided to post our own doctors there,” Wahab said.
“Our target now is to further increase testing. Sindh’s capacity for testing was at 80 n 26th February, today it is at more than 4000 per day, almost 80-90 percent of the expenses the Sindh government is paying out of its own pocket,” Murtaza Wahab said.
He informed the reporters that there are now 169 hospitals across the provinces that have isolation facilities with 7399 beds. “The number of ICU beds is at 207, while the number of ventilators reserved only for coronavirus patients is at 283 and 14 patients are intubated on ventilators,” he added.
The PPP leader also assured that Sindh Government plans to purchase 163 more ventilators. He also confirmed that citizens stuck at the Taftan border will be brought to the province.
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