The provincial health department and health and medical services department of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) have directed the heads of major public sector hospitals of the city to establish or make functional ‘Isolation Wards’ in their hospitals for treatment of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF).
Talking to PPI, KMC Health and Medical Services Senior Director Dr Muhammad Ali Abbasi said a 40-bed Isolation Ward has been established at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital following the death of cattle handler from Congo fever in Karachi. He said training of medical staff had already been started in the city to deal with the Congo fever …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
