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ISLAMABAD
Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on National Health Services, Dr Zafar Mirza has dispelled the impression of any crisis of availability of beds, ventilators or other facilities for corona patients.
Addressing a news conference here on Sunday, Mirza said that only 28 percent of ventilators have so far been engaged for Covid-19 patients and there is no crisis in this regard. He said that 723 patients are in critical condition and 201 of them are on ventilators, which is the maximum number of people on ventilators. He said, “We have also developed Resource Management System (RMS) to collect and provide real-time information about corona patients throughout Pakistan.
Giving details of the RMS, Chief Executive Officer of NITB Shabahat Ali said all the hospitals across Pakistan have been linked with this system. He said these hospitals can individually update real time data to provide a unified and consolidated picture of the resources available to treat corona patients in various hospitals.
Shabahat Ali said that volunteer and social welfare organizations and government agencies like Eidhi Foundation and Rescue 1122 will also be given access to RMS so that they can get updated information about availability of beds and ventilators for the people suffering from Covid-19.
He said that over 1,500 hospitals across the country have been linked with this system, providing real time information about availability of space, beds, ventilators, and other facilities to handle corona patients before moving to a particular health facility. TLTP
