Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF starts COVID activities in Timergara

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF315013

Date taken / Date Recorded 09/04/2020 12:00 AM

Country Pakistan

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Nasir Ghafoor

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Additional Information / Shotlist Everybody entering the hospital seeking healthcare
will pass through this gate.
And then they will be screened for COVID-19.

Pakistan has been hard hit
by the COVID-19 pandemic,
with nearly 6,000 confirmed
cases by mid-April

MSF has decided to activate its emergency response in Pakistan and one of the components is that inside the DHQ hospital we have set up a pre-triage and screening centre.

It will help us actively identify cases. It will help us to reduce transmission at community level, and most importantly it will help us reduce the impact on the patients and healthcare workers who are more vulnerable to this infection.

COVID-19 screening was set up in
just 7 days at the
DHQ hospital in Timergara, Lower Dir
Every day around 1,000 people
are screened here.

The set-up installed by MSF has three layers. The first one is pre-triage, where the basic questions are asked. If they find any suspicions, the patients are sent inside to the second triage where medical staff investigate further. If they find that the patient needs to be sent to the consultation room, where the medical specialists are sitting, they decide whether the test swap is to be taken for the confirmatory test. The patient needs to be isolated through home quarantine or needs to be isolated in the isolation room.

Another major component of this response is the isolation unit. We have a 15-bed isolation, and this is further divided into two categories: one those patients whose results are awaited; and the other one is for those who are confirmed positive cases. If the patient needs intensive care, we have the facility to refer the patient immediately to a tertiary care hospital in Peshawar.

MSF is also conducting COVID-19
awareness-raising activities
with the patients at DHQ hospital,
and in its project locations across Pakistan

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