Pakistan now has one of the highest numbers of daily new coronavirus cases in the world. Doctors say their COVID-19 wards are full or nearly full, and they're scrambling for equipment. 'People are just literally fighting for beds,' one surgeon tells NPR.
, a government policy thinktank and a columnist."One of the primary objectives of public policy needed to be to prevent the collapse of the public health system" – and that had not happened – because, he says, of"the gut feeling of the prime minister."
The WHO letter noted that 24 percent of Pakistanis who had been tested for COVID-19 were positive. It said the positive rate should be no higher than 5 percent, which would suggest disease transmission was under control. It said Pakistan's ability to identify, test, isolate and care for COVID-19 patients was"weak."
At the Mayo Hospital,"they're only given to people who have some link to some senior official or some political person," Khaled said. Regular patients get access only if there are spare ventilators.
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