Islamabad: A Pakistani doctor from a remote village in Punjab has set an example for other doctors in his network by improvising his personal clinic in a virus-free facility and following accepted criteria and protocol for examining patients.
Dr. Zafar Ehsan, a pediatrician and skin specialist in the southern district of Punjab, Layyah, forked his clinic in two halves with a glass wall emerging from floor to ceiling.
This does not happen in large cities such as Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. However, for other people in remote areas, it’s something they’re not used to.
Sitting on one component of the room, the doctor examines/interrogates the patient who is sitting on the other component. There is no gap in the glass screen that can allow the patient’s breathing to move from one component to another.
Cellular communication
The doctor and patient talk to others through a cell phone and an assistant helps facilitate uninterrupted communication between the two.
Speaking to Gulf News, Dr. Ehsan, 48, said he had made the decision with the brain that doctors and paramedics were among the segments of society most affected by coronavirus in giant quantities.
In the first 4 months since the coronavirus outbreak, they kept the clinic closed (his wife is also a doctor) and cut all external ties confined to the 4 walls of the space adjacent to the facility.
“Initially, we thought we wouldn’t resume practice until the viral risk disappeared. However, as the days went on, there was no sign of returning to normalization and gradually we have become transparent that we will have to be informed to live. with coronavirus, Dr Ehsan said.
Now that the coronavirus scenario is getting a little better and so do they, tired of the long hours of respite at home, have to resume practice.
Patient masks
“Despite everything, we made the decision to resume practice, but we did as productive as possible so as not to be in direct contact with patients,” he said. Now, Dr. Ehsan and his wife, Dr. Nusrat, read about patients in the other aspect of the glass screen and all questions are answered via mobile phone.
“We make sure that all patients wear a mask before entering the clinic. They are also well disinfected so that other patients at the clinic get the virus,” he said.
When asked if he faced resistance or complaint while following foreign practice and patient review protocol in a less evolved city in the province, he said he didn’t care what others were saying.
“At first, some patients objected to being tested on the glass screen, but when we made them perceive how serious the coronavirus remedy might be, they understood it and stopped criticizing,” he said.
45 died in Punjab
“However, my colleagues fully like me and appreciate those arrangements because in the recent beyond we have noticed that our close friends, junior and senior doctors lose their lives due to coronavirus,” he continued. You’re right that so far, forty-five doctors and five nurses have died in Punjab while treating patients with coronavirus.
In addition, according to the coordinator of the Association of Juvenile Physicians (YDA), Dr. Imran Bhatti in Punjab, more than two hundred doctors, nurses and paramedics lit the five-month battle with coronavirus.
Pakistan reported 15 deaths and 675 new cases of coronavirus in 24 hours, recording a stable and marked progression opposite the virus.
These promising effects came after 11915 nationwide tests for coronavirus in one day. With these most recent figures, the total number of deaths in Pakistan is 6,014, while the number of cases is 281,136.
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