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Handbook on Field Isolation Centre launched

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

A panel of doctors working at the Field Isolation Centre, Karachi, has compiled a handbook of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Protocols regarding the pandemic of coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, who was the chief guest at its launching ceremony on May 19, lauded the efforts of the doctors for having made a consolidated endeavor to log their experience in the fight against COVID-19 and devise SOPs/Protocols in the form of the book which would serve as a guideline for smooth establishment of a similar facility in future. 

“This handbook is an excellent culmination of their efforts. it will help not only other national efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 but also those developing countries that lie in circumstances similar to ours who will use it as a guide map to building isolation centres in their own areas,” he reckoned. 

The organizers of the programme presented first copy of the handbook titled Field Isolation Centre-Karachi to the chief minister on the occasion. 

The launching ceremony was attended by among others by Dr Nuzhat Faruqui, Dr Waris Ahmed, Dr Muneer Amanullah, Dr Arish Haider, Faisal Edhi, Dr Mushtaq Chhapra besides Commissioner Karachi, Iftikhar Shalwani. 

The Field Isolation Centre was set up at the Expo Centre, Karachi, jointly by the Sindh Government and the Pakistan Army last month.

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