ISLAMABAD, June 11th: Parliamentary Secretary for Health Dr Noushin Hamid has said that Pakistan is now in a position to make its own N95 mask.
Parliamentary Health Secretary Dr. Noshin Hamid told the National Assembly that Pakistan cannot lock down China-style because we have to lock down and save the economy, so the only solution to save ourselves from Corona is to implement SOPs.
She said that when the epidemic hit, there were 2200 vanity liters but now it is not like that, 1473 vanity liters are coming from China out of which 341 vanity liters have been received and 245 more vanity liters will be received from China by June 15.
Noshin Hamid said that last week the federal government had provided 250 vanity liters to all the provinces and the government was going to sign an agreement with a private hospital regarding vanity liters. The expenses will be paid by the government.
“We were doing 25,000 to 30,000 tests a day, but now we have a capacity of 46,000 tests a day, and we have started preparing 1,000 more ICUBs,” he said.
Nosheen Hamid said that Pakistan is now in a position to make its own N95 mask. Expressing anger over the criticism of the opposition in the House, the Parliamentary Secretary said that the Prime Minister was leading from the front on the issue of Corona but the words of the opposition showed that the government was sitting on its hands on the issue of Corona.
