A PMA delegation met the CM on Saturday, asking him not to transfer coronavirus patients to the isolation centres established at tertiary care hospitals, pointing out that there was a risk that they could infect the staff and other patients there. Moreover, they requested Shah to announce risk allowances and pay raises for the doctors, paramedics and other staff serving on the frontlines. The PMA members further stated that the provincial government should declare the doctors who have lost their lives in the war against the pandemic as ‘Shaheed,’ as the Punjab government was doing. The CM apprised the meeting that he was establishing isolation centres and field hospitals all over Sindh, adding that they were utilising newly-constructed buildings belonging to the health and education department for quarantining people. Moreover, he said, they were planning to set up marquees on open grounds as isolation centres.

Source: The Express Tribune April 18, 2020 16:41 UTC