86 ventilators in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa hospitals still unoccupied.

Byline: Ashfaq Yusufzai

PESHAWAR -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which has 83 Covid-19 critical patients on ventilators, has still 86 unoccupied ventilators in public sector hospitals that can be utilised in case of surge in serious patients, according to a report.

The province has currently 887 patients in different hospitals due to the infection of coronavirus. The patients include 362 in stable condition and 442 critical with 83 of them on ventilators. Of them, 59 are in Peshawar and the rest are in other cities including Swat, Abbottabad, Mardan, Dear Ismail Khan etc.

The report prepared by Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination said that the number of ventilators in the country was 2,978 and 1,181 of those were specified for Covid-19 patients in the state-run hospitals.

The province has a total of 106 ventilators specified for Covid-19 patients in addition to 55 more which can be utilised in case of need.

The province has 83 coronavirus patients on ventilators

The report said that presently 474 ventilators were occupied by seriously-ill coronavirus patients, who required mechanical ventilation, while 707 or 40 per cent remained unused.

Additionally, there were 1,361 more non-Covid-19 ventilators that could be utilised in case the number of serious patients grew, it said.

The report said that Islamabad topped the ventilators' occupancy ratio where 70 per cent were under use of the patients while in Peshawar the occupancy ratio of ventilators was 63 per cent. Islamabad has a total of 214 hospitalised patients with 68 of the total 83 serious ones on ventilators while 63 are in stable condition.

It said that Sindh had 1,044 ventilators, the highest number of ventilators available in any province, and 343 were specified for coronavirus patients but only 119 were occupied at the moment while 224 were vacant.

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