While hospitals are on the verge of saturation, the Covid-19 situation in the federal capital is worsening with each passing day.

The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has exhausted its capacity and patients have to wait at the emergency centre to get a bed. Pims, which is a tertiary care hospital, has started referring emergency patients out due to a lack of beds.

Similarly, Polyclinic, which is one of the biggest hospitals of the capital, does not have a single ventilator vacant. Its management feels that it cannot enhance the capacity for Covid-19 patients as around 7,000 patients visit different departments of the hospital daily.

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