The health department has directed all the medical teaching institutions to allocate 20 per cent beds for Covid-19 patients, start coronavirus tests round the clock, feed data to the health system on daily basis and make available additional staff to ensure best possible care of the pandemic-hit people.

A letter issued to all the MTIs entitled “policy direction”, under sub-clause 2 (A) of section-7 of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act, 2015 states that health minister shall issue such policy and other directives to MTIs from time to time which shall be binding upon them.

The MTIs have been directed to share data with health department on daily basis, ensure availability of well trained clinical and non-clinical staff and contact the latter in case of staff deficiency.

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