ISLAMABAD, Feb 03 (APP): World Health Organization (WHO) has provided 700 personal protection equipment kits to the Ministry of Health, Pakistan to protect the medical staff from carrying coronavirus disease. “We have planned to provide 500 more personal protection equipment kits to Pakistan besides ensuring technical support to prevent coronavirus disease outbreak,” WHO Representative in Pakistan, Dr Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala said while talking to APP on Monday. He said that the WHO supported the government of Pakistan in many ways like it had provided support to establish isolation wards by giving necessary technical guidance and by giving 100 Infrared thermo guns to measure the temperature without touching the individual to identify suspected cases of coronavirus. These guns are being used at ports of entry (PoE), he added. He said WHO had also provided support in setting up of information booth at Islamabad Airport, which was functional 24 hours while two more booths were being established at airports in Lahore and Karachi. Further technical guidance was also being given to the medical staff of Pakistan for case identification, case management and isolation, he added. The Representative said disease information documents had also been handed over to the government of Pakistan. Dr … Continue reading WHO provides 700 personal protection equipment kits to Pakistan