113 front-line medicos suffer of Covid-19 in Mirpur: 102 recovered, 11 under treatment: MS DHQ.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- The wide-spread COVID-19 trapped at least 113 front-line workers medicos including doctors, nurses and paramedical staff in Mirpur divisional Headquarters Teaching hospital, official sources said.

'The state-of-the-art 160-bed Corona ward of the Mirpur Div. HQ Hospital presently contains a total of 54 indoor patients of the deadly virus including 46 patients at high-flow oxygen level and rest of 08 patients at low-flow oxygen level', said Medical Superintendent of the Mirpur Div. HQ Teaching Hospital Dr. Farooq Ahmed Noor talking to reporter here on Friday.

The MS said that with the continual rising trend of the pandemic, the overall ratio of the positive cases has raised to 15 percent so far.

Dr. Noor said that the hospital-based front-line medical workers fallen sick of the pandemic included 60 doctors, 18 nurses and 35 para-medical staffers during last three months following their continual round-the-clock duties because of the emergent situation at various stages. Of these front-line affected medical workers, 102 were recovered completely so far. Rest of 11 affectees were under treatment in the hospital, he added.

Unveiling the overall breakup of the negative repercussions of the pandemic in Mirpur, he said that the pandemic claimed over 160 lives so far in the hospital since the outburst of the pandemic. Those died included over a hundred of the persons who were tested positive but...