KARACHI: Sindh Health Department, in collaboration with the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, is planning to establish a state-of-the-art virology laboratory to detect various types of viral diseases in the future.
Sindh Secretary Health Zahid Ali Abbasi said that Sindh Health Department has decided to set up a modern Virology Lab in the next fiscal-year 2021-2022 with the support of with NIH to deal viral diseases like bird flu, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Chikungunya, coronavirus, Zika virus, influenza, Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), dengue and other viral diseases.
He said that the federal government has already started screening foreigners coming from different …read more
Source:: Pakistan Today
