Karachi: Sindh government has to close one of Pakistan’s largest makeshift isolation facilities in Karachi, as temporarily established physical care facilities are no longer needed due to a sharp decrease in coronavirus cases.
The provincial government has made the decision to close the isolation center on the grounds of the Karachi Expo Center, located in the center of the city. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the site was used to host industry exhibits and other occasions involving foreigners. Delegates.
The resolution to this effect was taken when Sindh’s chief secretary, Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah, chaired a committee meeting, which oversees the affairs of the provincial government’s coronavirus emergency fund, which is used to identify such emergency services in the province to deal with coronavirus cases.
The committee also to finish the task of creating a similar impromptu isolation facility in Karachi in some other popular recreation domain in the city, the PAF Museum. This task was never presented or opened.
The isolation center at the Karachi Exhibition Centre remained operational for five months, and the Pakistani army offered special assistance for the status quo of the 1,200-bed temporary rehabilitation centre. The federal government, personal sector, charities, and non-governmental organizations have provided assistance in managing the facility.
The exhibition centre’s facilities have been hailed as the cornerstone of Pakistan’s national efforts against the spread of coronavirus. One of the main objectives of the facility was to accommodate passengers arriving in the country after being diagnosed with the deadly viral disease.
Special counseling sessions, a videoconferencing service for the mental interview and physical condition of the patients who were maintained there were also organized.
It was inaugurated on 02 April 2020 through volunteers who enlisted with the Sindh government in their fight against COVID-19. The governor of Sindh, Imran Ismail, the commander of the Karachi Corps, Lieutenant General Humayun Aziz and the Minister of Sindh Heath, Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho.
Later, in June, Sindh’s chief minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, opened a 140-bed high-dependency unit on the exhibition center premises in a scenario where the province desperately needed these critical care services for the urgent recovery of critical COVID-19 patients.
The facility was established in accordance with World Health Organization rules for these COVID-19 emergency remedy centers, as patients had the opportunity to call via video to play those they enjoyed.
However, the special facility has also been criticized for its location amid the dense urban population, as other people distrusted the provisions in a position to dispose of municipal and clinical waste generated through the center.
The facility, for the most part, remained in use well below capacity due to the smaller number of PATIENTS with COVID-19 in Karachi who required special isolation centers.
However, at the time of the inauguration, the governor of Sindh had declared that the center would continue to operate until the country’s coronavirus was removed.
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