Members of the Young Doctors Association in Lahore have said that hospitals are "not safe for coronavirus patients" because SOPs are not implemented.

During a press conference outside the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) in Lahore, they said that test results, that should ideally be received in 12 hours are released in 14 days, which endangers other people, who are usually suffering from heart ailments and admitted in the hospital with suspected patients.

He demanded that:

• the government recognises PIC as a facility for Covid-19 patients

• PPEs be provided to doctors and hospital staff

• testing facility be increased

"It is the right of the patients that they are protected from any of us who might be a carrier," the YDA representative said.

"Doctors do not take tea breaks or lunch breaks, they don't go on summer or winter vacations, do not opt out of night duties. We are doing all we can," he said and urged authorities to not project doctors as public enemies.