KARACHI: Medical and Health Services Department of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has established isolation wards in four major health facilities of KMC for treatment of suspected Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) cases during Eid-ul-Azha.
Senior Director, Medical and Health Services, KMC, Dr Birbal Genani, while talking to PPI, said the isolation wards had been set up in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH), Landhi Medical Complex Hospital, Gazdarabad General Hospital and Sarfaraz Rafiqui Shaheed Hospital.
The doctors, nurses and paramedical staff have been instructed to take preventive measures while treating suspected Congo patients and contaminated needles, surgical instruments and body waste material should be safely disposed of using appropriate decontamination procedures.
“All the medical superintendents and focal persons have been directed to take precautions to avoid the disease during these days. It is advised that hospital should also take adequate precautions while treating patients exposed to domestic animals or meat handlers and must observe adequate infection control procedures,” he added.
They have asked to provide health, education and advices to the general public for awareness. The Congo fever is highly contagious disease, a fatal viral disease that spreads through tick bite.
Therefore heads and medical superintendents of KMC hospitals have been directed to prepare and take appropriate measures to protect human lives, particularly doctors and health care providers against Congo virus.