Corona cases decline in Punjab: secretary

LAHORE:Secretary Specialised Healthcare Punjab Nabeel Ahmed Awan has said that decline in corona pandemic cases was witnessed in the province. Out of 7,448 beds reserved in all government hospitals for COVID-19 patients, 6,593 beds are lying unoccupied.

In a handout issued here on Friday, he said that likewise 1,555 beds reserved in government hospitals of Lahore and 1,347 beds were vacant so far. He added the department had arranged 3,327 beds in Isolation wards of all government hospitals in the province out of which 3,089 beds were vacant.

Nabeel Awan said that the health department had arranged 782 ventilators for COVID-19 patients in all hospitals of the provincial government of which 168 ventilators were under use while 614 were unoccupied. Around 278 ventilators were reserved in Lahore hospitals of which 60 were occupied while 218 ventilators were vacant, he added.