Smart lockdown imposed in Haripur

Decision taken after higher number of cases surface in district.

ABBOTTABAD/ HARIPUR:

The deadly fifth wave of coronavirus has slowly gained momentum in the Hazara division.

The Haripur Deputy Commissioner (DC) has imposed a smart lockdown in the district after receiving confirmation about the spread of the virus amongst the students of three separate schools.

Orders have been issued for the closure of these three schools till January 30. More than 70 positive cases have surfaced in the past 24 hours across the district. In an effort to contain the spread of the virus, the district administration has decided to impose a smart lockdown. Orders have also been issued for citizens to take precautionary measures.

In Abbottabad, Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH) has all the facilities for patients infected with Coronavirus and in case of any emergency, our doctors and nurses will be on the front line to tackle the challenge.

This was stated by ATH Medical Director Dr Alam Zeb Swati on Tuesday in a meeting held regarding the increasing number of Coronavirus cases in the region.

During the fifth wave of the Coronavirus epidemic, the number of infected patients at ATH is increasing rapidly due to which the medical director of the hospital Dr Swati called an emergency meeting of the directors and heads of the departments including Mustahsan Raza, Nursing Director Shamsul Huda and others to discuss the growing cases of Coronavirus.

During the meeting, Dr Imran said that although preparations at Ayub Teaching Hospital are satisfactory if the number of cases intensifies then we will have to evacuate other wards and we are ready for it. He directed the masses to strictly follow the precautionary measures and make it mandatory for all people to be vaccinated so that the epidemic can be eradicated as soon as possible.

Dr. Imran said that the number of cases has been increasing rapidly during the last few days all over Hazara division, the latest increase is attached to the Omicron variant of Coronavirus which appeared in Europe a few weeks ago, he said. The hospital administration is arranging more beds for Coronavirus patients, some wards of the hospital have been closed and reserved for Coronavirus and arrangements have been made to deal with the emergency.

Dr Swati said that this wave is harder than all the previous waves of Coronavirus, people should be more careful because the symptoms of the new variant are different from all the previous waves.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, January 26^th, 2022.

 

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