Covid-19 claims six more lives in Rawalpindi

Six more people died while 63 more people were tested positive for fatal coronavirus during the last 24 hours, raising the tally of confirmed cases to 45,849 in the district.

As per the latest data released by the District Health Authority on Tuesday, among the new patients, 16 belonged to the Rawal Town and Rawalpindi Cantonment area, 11 from Potohar Town, seven from Taxila, two from Gujjar Khan, Murree and Islamabad while one of each case has arrived from Kahutta, Kallar Syedan, Jhelum, Attock, Chakwal, AJK and KPK.

"Presently,77 patients are admitted to five health facilities, including 38 in the Institute of Urology,28 in the Fauji Foundation Hospital, six in the Holy Family Hospital, four in the Benazir Bhutto Hospital, and one in the Hearts International Hospital."As many as 5,432,084 people, including 44,615 health workers, had so far been vaccinated against the fatal disease since the start of the vaccination drive from March 10, 2021", it said.

Meanwhile, Director General (DG) Military Lands and Cantonments (ML&C) Major General Tariq Zamir HI (M) on Tuesday inaugurated PCR Laboratory for Covid-19 and other medical tests at Cantonment General Hospital (CGH).

Director ML&C Tanveer Ashraf, Cantonment Executive Officer, Rawalpindi Cantt, Imran Gulzar, Additional CEO, Naveed Nawaz, Administrator CGH, Hassan Ibrahim, Deputy Administrator Dr Attiquddin and other officers were present.

Administrator CGH while briefing the DG ML&C informed that with the establishment of PCR laboratory, better medical test facilities would be provided to the citizens and Covid-19 and other complex diseases would be tested at a lower cost in the hospital.

Maj Gen Tariq Zameer was also informed about other medical facilities being provided in the hospital.

The DG visited different departments of the hospital and appreciated the role of the CEO RCB, Administration of the hospital, doctors and medical staff and said that all available resources should be utilized to provide better healthcare facilities to the people and efforts should also be made to further improve their quality.

He directed the authorities to complete other projects in the same spirit to provide more facilities to the residents.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 16^th, 2022.