Four more patients tested positive in Chitral

F.P. Report

CHITRAL: Four more suspected patients tested positive in Chitral, bringing the number of coronavirus patients to 16 in the district, Dr. Nisarullah, Public Health Coordinator confirmed here on Tuesday.

The daily increase in the number of coronavirus patients in Chitral has caused great concern among the people and certainly with every day passing the number of tested patients has been increasing, Dr, Nisarullah added.

Public Health Coordinator from Health Department Dr. Nisarullah disclosed that Sanaullah, son of Sadiqullah, 22, of Upper Chitral District, a resident of Charon, a popular town near Bonni, came from Peshawar on April 20 to receive a government degree.

He was placed in the quarantine center of the College for Women, Bonnie. He was tested positive and was shifted to the isolation ward.

According to the spokesperson of the health department, Hijrat Begum, wife of Moinullah, 38, from Lower Chitral, a resident of Domil, near Pak-Afghan border area, also came from Peshawar. She was kept in the quarantine center of Darosh and tested positive. Upon arrival, she was shifted to the hospital’s isolation ward.

The third person Muslim Shah, son of Ajaib Shah, resident of Gahtak, Dinin, aged 64, who came from Khushab district of Punjab, was also kept in the quarantine of Chitral Degree College. He had come to Chitral from the Punjab and was also kept in the quarantine center at the Government Commerce College hostel. He also tested positive, bringing the number of coronavirus patients in Chitral to 16 including two women. The District Headquarters Hospital in Chitral has only three ventilators and no trained staff for the use of these ventilators. The people of Chitral urged the provincial and federal governments to send the necessary equipment and missionaries to the hospitals of Chitral along with the staff for prevention and treatment of Corona virus on an emergency basis.

When contacted a patient in the Commerce College quarantine center, he informed that there are only four wash rooms for 43 to 53 patients that also lead to infection of all the patients from each others, which need to be addressed and provide safety for those who are still suspected and waiting for their tests result it be either negative or positive reports.