PIMS to shut OPDs

Decision taken to restrict the influx of people at the healthcare facility

ISLAMABAD: As a preventive measure against COVID-19, the management of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has decided to shut down its outpatient department (OPD).

With the hospital hosting an isolation and treatment ward for COVID-19 patients, officials explained that this decision was taken to restrict the influx of people at the healthcare facility.

Pims Executive Director Dr Anser Maxood chaired a meeting of all departmental heads on Monday during which it was decided to convert medical ward-II into an isolation facility. The patients of this ward will be shifted to another ward.

Apart from this, three floors of the private ward will also be converted into a quarantine facility. Further, 30 beds of the dentistry department will also be utilised to treat COVID-19 patients.

A committee to oversee daily affairs has been constituted under the supervision of Dr Mehmood. 

Published in The Express Tribune, March 24^th, 2020.