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Pakistan: 12 doctors test positive for COVID-19 in Multan hospital
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Pakistan: 12 doctors test positive for COVID-19 in Multan hospital

| @indiablooms | 12 Apr 2020, 02:17 pm

Multan/IBNS: Twelve doctors and nurses have tested positive for COVID-19  at Nishtar Medical Hospital in Pakistan's Multan area, media reports said.

Vice-Chancellor Nishtar Medical University Dr Mustafa Kamal Pasha told Geo News the paramedics were exposed to the virus while treating a patient. 

“The staff had been treating a patient who had a lung disease. After the patient died his test came back positive for the virus. We conducted tests of everyone in the ward after the patient passed away,” he added.

Dr Qaiser Sajjad, secretary-general of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) told Geo News that the government needed to ensure proper protective gear was given to those dealing with coronavirus patients."

“This is a serious issue if the doctors aren’t protected,” Dr Sajjad said. “The government keeps saying it will only provide protective gear to those working in the intensive care unit.”

“If we do not take precautions, our health system would collapse,” he warned.

The number of COVID-19 cases in the country stands at 5171.

The disease left 88 people dead in Pakistan so far.

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