People complain of lack of coordination, health facilities in Hazara

MANSEHRA: Lack of coordination among health facilities and substandard screening services have caused embarrassment to COVID-19 and other patients in Hazara division.

“The main hospitals in Mansehra and Abbottabad have strictly been refusing COVID-19 patients and quarantine centres are lacking curing and other facilities required to contain this deadly virus,” Alamgeer, a resident of Balakot, told a news conference here on Sunday. He said that his father Abdul Latif, 80, was taken to Ayub Medical Complex Hospital in Abbottabad from Balakot for check-up where doctors forcibly hospitalised him there as a covid-19 suspected patient.

“My father was discharged from the hospital on March 24 after his medical report sent to Islamabad tested negative” said Alamgeer. He said that when another COVID-19 test of his father taken at Ayub Medical Complex hospital by doctors and sent to Peshawar tested positive, a district administration team rushed to their home and took his father to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital through an ambulance where doctors referred him to Ayub medical complex.

“We shifted him to Ayub Medical Complex but they also refused to hospitalise him there and they were left with no other option but to shift him to Balakot quarantine centre where he is without any treatment for last two consecutive days,” said Alamgeer. He said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government claimed much of its precautionary measures to contain the outbreak but when a patient was being treated in such a way, he might be proven a carrier and infect more and more people.