AJK President urges Ulema to guide people in light of Quran, Sunnah

F.P. Report

MIRPUR: President, Azad Jammu Kashmir, Sardar Masood Khan on Monday said that coronavirus was a test from Allah, and we would have to respond to the pandemic with patience and wisdom.

“The ulema should come forward to guide the people in this hour of trial, and prepare the people to live their lives in the light of Quran and Sunnah,” the President stated after telephonic briefing from the AJK Director General Public Health, Dr Sardar Aftab Khan. He said that Azad Kashmir was somewhat safe from this calamity so far, but we would have to take all necessary measures to cope any situation in coming days.

In the briefing, the AJK president was told that rapid response teams headed by district health officers (DHOs) were fully functional in all 10 districts of the liberated territory. These teams comprising representatives of revenue department, NGOs and Expanding Immunization Program (EPI), are busy in tracing the people who had recently come from abroad, to get them tested and to shift the suspects to the quarantine centers.

The Director General Health told the AJK president that isolated wards have been established in ten hospitals of Azad Kashmir, while samples of 44 suspected coronacases of the state were to the National Institute of Health. Of them, test reports of 40 people have been received, and only one of them has been tested positive, who has been shifted to quarantine center in Mirpur.

The state president was informed that virology lab at Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences Muzaffarabad has been strengthened on emergency basis, and hopefully, this will start functioning in a couple of days. The rapid response teams, he said, has also been assigned the task to coordinate, take preventive and monitor the situation round the clock.