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The Sindh government has released Rs300 million to the Indus Health Network (IHN) for the procurement of at least 50 ventilators for the health facilities in Sindh, of which at least 10 would be installed in a special health facility in the outskirts of Karachi where coronavirus patients would be admitted for treatment, The News has learnt. THE NEWS

With concerns about the provincial health department’s capacity to deal with a widespread coronavirus outbreak, the Sindh government has decided to hand over charge of ‘isolation facilities’ set up for coronavirus patients in the provincial capital to private hospitals. EXPRESS TRIBUNE

I have tasked the Indus Hospital with looking after all of the coronavirus issues, from conducting tests and keeping the suspects in isolation to providing them with treatment, and my government has given them a grant of Rs100 million to purchase kits and other necessary equipment,” CM Sindh Said. THE NEWS

The health department official maintained that the confirmed patients of coronavirus would be shifted from different hospitals including Indus Hospital, Dow University Hospital, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Civil Hospital and Lyari General Hospital in the fully-equipped ambulances of the Aman Foundation. DAILY TIMES

انڈس اسپتال کے احاطے میں 2018 سے ایک ہال میں قائم ‘انڈس کے ستارے’ نامی اسکول ایسے بچوں کو تعلیم دے رہا ہے جو موذی امراض کے سبب اسکول جانے سے قاصر ہیں یا انہیں اس بیماری کی وجہ سے کوئی اسکول داخلہ دینے کو تیار نہیں۔ VOICE OF AMERICA

The decision was taken in an emergency meeting headed by Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to chalk out a strategy to prevent the spread of coronavirus. DAWN

The Pakistan Cricket Board has joined hands with the Indus Hospital, Karachi, and Pink Ribbon Pakistan to observe Childhood Cancer Awareness Day and Breast Cancer Awareness Day, respectively, during the fifth edition of the HBL PSL. ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Indus Hospital Golf Tournament is an annual event which serves to raise funds for various initiatives and endeavors at TIH. THE NEWS GEO NEWS

Watch Dr Abdul Bari Khan’s interview on HUM News Morning show. HUM NEWS LINK

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) and four private hospitals Tuesday joined hands in first ever public private partnership for conducting cochlear implant surgeries of the speaking and hearing impaired children of poorest of the poor segment of society. ASSOCIATED PRESS