KARACHI:The Aga Khan University Hospitals (AKUH) and its nationwide network of services remain open for all patients, said a release here Thursday.
The main Hospital at Stadium Road is open for all patients with all illnesses. Our clinics, admissions for planned surgeries and other services are open, continue uninterrupted and our doctors in all specialties are seeing patients.
Additional safety precautions based on strict infection control guidelines are practices to ensure that our facilities are regularly disinfected and cleaned.
The patients are coming to hospital with COVID-19 symptoms for screening, testing or treatment are taken care of physically separate areas of the hospital. Separate spaces have been specifically setup to effectively take care of COVID-19 patients.
When COVID-19 beds are occupied, we cannot safely accept more patients, due to which hospital emergency area specifically setup for COVID-19 patients goes on diversion. As beds in the COVID-19 area become available, our COVID-19 Emergency Department begins accepting patients again and the diversion ends. AKU emergency department continues to accept other patients and is open, concludes the release.