KARACHI: The Edhi Foundation has prepared their rescue staff and reserved properly disinfected ambulances to shift sick people and protect them from being infected with the virus that has already killed three people in the country with one of the deaths reported in the provincial capital.

On Saturday, Edhi Foundation shifted three coronavirus positive cases from the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) to an isolation ward set up in a government hospital in the Gadap area, Saad Edhi, a spokesperson for the charity said.

He further said that they had trained over 70 persons and provided them necessary protective equipment. Besides, the charity had also reserved 60 ambulances for Karachi alone and efforts were also being made to train more staff in other parts of Sindh and the country in how to deal with the virus-infected people and reserve more ambulances to meet any eventuality.

Published in Dawn, March 22nd, 2020