KTH seeks donations to provide food to patients, staff.

PESHAWAR -- The government-funded medical teaching institution Khyber Teaching Hospital has sought donations from philanthropists to provide food to Covid-19 patients and the staff deployed at the isolation wards.

A press release issued from the KTH media department on Monday said that more than 150 healthcare providers, including doctors, nurses, paramedics and Class-IV employees were deputed only for the Covid-19 patients, who needed to be served food so they could stay in their places of duty in Ramazan.

The government stopped provision of food to patients at the hospitals 15 years ago, prompting the authorities to look for donations to be able to arrange Sehr and Iftar for patients as well as staff.

The press release said that the hospital staff had raised an amount of Rs600,000 that exhausted and the hospital needed donations to continue serving food to the staff and the patients during the holy month of Ramazan.

The foodstuff, being supplied from doctors' hostel located on hospital's premises, was distributed among the admitted and suspected patients besides among the staff on duty in accidents and emergency department, private rooms and isolation unit to ensure that the staffers did...