{"id":67241,"date":"2020-06-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67241"},"modified":"2020-06-26T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T13:01:55","slug":"kp-health-department-receives-two-pcr-machines-coronavirus-testing-from-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-health-department-receives-two-pcr-machines-coronavirus-testing-from-who.html","title":{"rendered":"KP Health Department receives two PCR machines for coronavirus testing from WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Health Department on Thursday received two PCR machines from the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a bid to increase the province\u2019s coronavirus testing capacity, a news source reported. To this effect, WHO representative Dr Palitha Mahipala donated the machines to the officials concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/who-for-improved-testing-lockdown-extension-ipakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WHO calls for improved testing capacity, lockdown extension in Pakistan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Mahipala met with KP Health Minister Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra to discuss the province\u2019s response to the pandemic. He ensured WHO\u2019s support for keeping people safe against the virus. Stressing the need for infection-control measures in hospitals, he highlighted that the WHO had helped disinfect hospitals in the province and trained staff in swab collection and managing COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-enhance-testing-capacity-stop-covid-19-transmissions-sapm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt to enhance testing capacity to stop COVID-19 transmissions: SAPM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further discussing coronavirus testing capacity, Dr Mahipala stated that testing was significant to identification of virus-positive individuals and their better management. He also visited the Directorate General Health Services offices. He donated 500 personal protective kits, 500 bottles of hand sanitizers, 500 surgical masks, 500 N-95 masks, and 5000 shoe covers to the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Health Department on Thursday received two PCR machines from the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a bid to increase the province\u2019s coronavirus testing capacity, a news source reported. To this effect, WHO representative Dr Palitha Mahipala donated the machines to the officials concerned. Read: WHO calls for improved testing capacity, lockdown extension in Pakistan Dr Mahipala met with KP Health Minister Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra to discuss the province\u2019s response to the pandemic. He ensured WHO\u2019s support for keeping people safe against the virus. Stressing the need for infection-control measures in hospitals, he highlighted that the WHO had helped disinfect hospitals in the province and trained staff in swab collection and managing COVID-19 patients. Read: Govt to enhance testing capacity to stop COVID-19 transmissions: SAPM Further discussing coronavirus testing capacity, Dr Mahipala stated that testing was significant to identification of virus-positive individuals and their better management. He also visited the Directorate General Health Services offices. He donated 500 personal protective kits, 500 bottles of hand sanitizers, 500 surgical masks, 500 N-95 masks, and 5000 shoe covers to the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":63210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32965],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-kp-health-department-receives-two-pcr-machines-for-coronavirus-testing-from-who"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KP gets PCR machines for coronavirus testing capacity - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"KP Health Department has received two PCR machines from WHO in a bid to increase the province\u2019s coronavirus testing capacity, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-health-department-receives-two-pcr-machines-coronavirus-testing-from-who.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KP gets PCR machines for coronavirus testing capacity - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KP Health Department has received two PCR machines from WHO in a bid to increase the province\u2019s coronavirus testing capacity, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-health-department-receives-two-pcr-machines-coronavirus-testing-from-who.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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