Three senior doctors of Karachi, including a former director-general of health, lost their lives during the past two days due to complications caused by Covid-19, raising alarm among healthcare providers.

So far, 46 doctors have died of the coronavirus in Sindh. Of them, 26 doctors were based in Karachi.

Sources said Dr Waseemuddin was a paediatrician, Prof Abdul Sattar Korai, the former DG-Health, Sindh, an ENT specialist and Dr Tahir Amin Chaudhary who had retired from the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre as chief anaesthetist.

According to the data compiled by Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), a total of 142 doctors have died of coronavirus in the country; 61 in Punjab, 46 in Sindh, 26 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, five in Balochistan, one in Gilgit-Baltistan, three in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

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