DC highlights need of virus testing lab at RTE hospital.

MUZAFFARGARH -- :Deputy commissioner Amjad Shoaib Khan Tareen on Tuesday said that 330 patients have so far been discharged from Recep Tayyip Erdogan (RTE) hospital and highlighted the need for establishing a laboratory at the hospital to screen suspected individuals for novel coronavirus to effectively move forward with the fight against COVID-19

pandemic.

He expressed these views at an official meeting, which was jointly chaired by provincial secretary special education Syed Javed Iqbal Bukhari to discuss matters pertaining to treatment of virus infected patients, anti-dengue campaign, drive against locusts and wheat procurement operation.

Tareen said that the 330 patients discharged from RTE hospital also included 126 patients out of total 152 from district Muzaffargarh.

He said that all the doctors and paramedical staff at the government hospitals in the district have been provided with personal protective equipment (PPE) and added that additional PPEs were also available in good number to deal with any emergency situation.

He said that sufficient number of ventilators were also available in the district and a quarantine centre has recently been...