KARACHI: Dr Ziauddin Hospital has established 50-Bed Covid-19 isolation ward at its Keamari campus, here on Friday. Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah inaugurated the isolation ward and appreciated Dr Ziauddin Hospital and its efforts to establish a dedicated ward for corona patients.
"We have established 50-Bed Covid-19 isolation ward because there is no Covid-19 hospital in this area. We have proper ICU, HDUs and isolation ward including ventilators. We already have Covid-19 wards in both North and Clifton campuses of Dr Ziauddin Hospital," said Dr Asim Hussain, Chairman, Dr Ziauddin Hospital while talking to the media at a press conference on the occasion of inaugural ceremony of Covid-19 ward.
Answering the question about the Corona funding from the government he said that neither we take any money from the government nor do we want to. In fact the government itself offered us to take Covid-19 patients but we turned down the offer. Government better use its own government hospitals.
"Biggest reasons for the downfall in the number of corona cases are that now people have less fear of corona so they are avoiding corona tests.
They start treating themselves at homes which is dangerous. Also, our district departments are not strong enough to control Covid-19. Government has failed to control the current situation," he stated.
Whilst talking to media persons about HEC and SHEC he said, "We really need structural reforms in this country, for instance; we have 6 boards in Sindh but couldn't see any supervision over these boards.
Federal hasn't defined any role to the Sindh HEC Board and doesn't want to give away its power. In my view, SHEC is not functioning up to the mark. I have sent a summary to the CM for some reforms to make it better. So that required VCs get appointed on an immediate basis and criteria should be followed properly."
On a question about online education he said that the government doesn't have the capacity to start education physically or online. We, Ziauddin University, have our own online system, we have an online student portal and we are taking online classes and exams. Maximum exam that has been taken on our online system had 1000 students online.
I don't think the government has any capacity to do this at all. How are they even managing? I'm unable to understand.
Dr Asim emphasises on the need to change the outdated syllabus by saying, "There are two important things in any education system, curriculum and syllabus. We can follow the national curriculum but the syllabus should be changed according to every board's requirement.
Our children are studying outdated books in almost every course and we need to change our syllabus. My concern is only to have an updated syllabus."
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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