KARACHI: Dr Ziauddin Hospital has established a 50-bed Covid-19 isolation ward at its Keamari campus, says a press release. Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah inaugurated the isolation ward on Friday.

“We have established 50-Beds Covid-19 Isolation Ward because there is no Covid-19 hospital in this area. We have proper ICU, HDUs and isolation ward including ventilators. We already have Covid-19 wards in both North and Clifton campuses of Dr Ziauddin Hospital”, said Dr Asim Hussain, chairman, Dr Ziauddin Hospital while talking to the media.

Whilst talking to media persons about HEC and SHEC, Dr Asim, who is chairman of the latter, said “we really need structural reforms in this country, for instance; we have 6 boards in Sindh but couldn’t see any supervision over these boards.”

On a question about online education he said that government doesn’t have capacity to start education physically or online.

Dr Asim emphasised the need to change the outdated syllabus.

Published in Dawn, July 12th, 2020