Another doctor contracts coronavirus in Karachi
KARACHI: A doctor at Karachi’s Abbasi Shaheed Hospital tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday, confirmed the hospital administration. The administration said that after the doctor contracted the virus, rest of the staff working alongside her were also tested. It was learnt that the female doctor’s husband, who is also a doctor at the Civil Hospital Karachi, had contacted the virus earlier. Following which, it was speculated that she got infected with the virus from her husband. The administration of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital said that the staff, who came into contact with the doctor in question, have been asked to go into isolation ffor 14 days. The incidents of doctors, who have been battling on the frontline without guarantee of adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), catching the virus are on the rise. On March 27, Punjab’s Primary and Secondary Health Care Department said that two doctors involved in the fight against coronavirus had positive for the disease...
