One more Covid-19 patient dies at GIMS Khairpur

SUKKUR: One more victim of Covid-19 died in GIMS Khairpur. Reports said a coronavirus positive patient Band Ali Buledi from Jacobabad was admitted at GIMS for liver transplant, however, the doctors recommended him different tests including Covid-19 test that later resulted in positive. Director GIMS Dr Raheem Bakhsh Bhatti said the Covid-19 test of the patient resulted positive and later he was shifted from the liver transplant ward to the isolation ward, where he died.

Dr Raheem Bakhsh said doctors and paramedic team which had attended him were also being tested for coronavirus. More Covid-19 local transmission cases in Shikarpur, Larkana, Jacobabad, Kandhkot and Tando Muhammed Khan without having symptoms of Covid-19 were emerging but became positive when tested.

Reports said four more Covid-19 local transmission cases were reported in Sukkur, including former DHO Sukkur and his wife.