KARACHI:Three doctors and one supporting staffer of two major private hospitals of Karachi were tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday.
Two doctors and a technician of Sindh’s largest private sector hospital in the city have developed the coronavirus symptoms which forced the hospital administration to suspend screening and testing for the coronavirus. At another private hospital, a doctor working at the Radiology Department has also been tested positive for the virus and put in isolation at his home. The doctor had arrived from the Tableegi Ijtimah Raiwind.
A spokesperson at Liaquat National Hospital (LNH) Karachi Anjum Rizvi clarified that no any medical employee had been infected by the coronavirus within the hospital as its administration was strictly following infection prevention and control standard operating procedure (SOPs). He informed that the infected doctor had acquired COVID-19 virus from Raiwind’s Tableegi Ijtimah, however, the doctor was recovering.