KP has lower no of cases but the highest death toll of COVID-19 patients

Khyber Pukhtunkhwa has lower no of cases but it has the highest death toll due to coronavirus due to comorbidity.

KP has lower no of cases but the highest death toll of COVID-19 patients

As per the administration measurements, Punjab has the most elevated number of cases (10,471) affirmed coronavirus cases. Correspondingly, the quantity of cases in KP is 4327, in any case, KP has revealed the highest death toll, (221), while Punjab has announced 191 deaths. In Pakistan, the complete number of affirmed cases are 27,474 and according to the most recent authority information, it has asserted 618 lives.

Dr. Sheheryar, who serves in the ICU of Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar said, that comorbidity in patients and their late landing in health offices are two significant purposes for the higher death rate in KP.

“At the point when we get patients at ICU, their condition is as of now turned basic and the serious issue regularly is that patients have coronavirus infection as well as experience the ill effects of different diseases like diabetes, heart afflictions, and so on,” he included.

In any case, he said that even propelled nations like the US have a high death rate from viruses regardless of the advanced technology present there.

He likewise said that while individuals quote higher mortality figures of KP, there might be a component of straightforwardness as KP might be revealing precise figures of the deaths, while different provinces may not be detailing it that way effectively.

“At the LRH, we have a 25-bed ICU prepared thus far we have not confronted any lack of ICU offices for patients. LRH has committed three ICUs for coronavirus patients just,” he included.

The disease surveillance division of the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, has additionally discharged a report, expressing that the pervasiveness of comorbidities among the individuals who have kicked the bucket of the COVID-19 in Pakistan was nine percent higher in KP contrasted with different areas.

Additionally, another factor behind the higher deaths in KP might be individuals’ hesitance to carry patients to nearby medical clinics as for the most part individuals take patients to Peshawar, the provincial capital, from remote, which irritates their conditions and prompts confusions and deaths.

By Ahsan Ali

A young motivated person, interested in research and bioenterpreneurship in Pakistan.