Pakistan COVID19
Pakistan: COVID-19 mortality rate much higher than global rate
Islamabad/UNI: A document of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has stated that the mortality rate due to COVID-19 in Pakistan was much higher than the rest of the world, Dawn reported here on Sunday.
According to the NCOC document the mortality rate from coronavirus in Pakistan was 2.24 per cent as against 1.97 per cent globally.
According to Dr Javed Akram member of the Scientific Task Force on Covid-19 more Pakistanis died because they visited hospitals due to complications arising from Covid-19 rather than directly by the infection itself.
He further said that poor health and diagnostic facilities at the hospitals aggravated the number of casualties across the country.
Out of the total number of COVID related deaths across the country 78 per cent were over the age of 50, 69 per cent had chronic comorbidity, and 91 per cent of the deceased were hospitalised with an average stay of 6.6 days. Around 45 per cent of the hospitalised patients remained on ventilators with an average stay of 3.2 days (ranging from one day to 42 days).
The document showed that 172 deaths were reported among health staff, out of whom 103 were doctors, one was a medical student, four were nurses and 64 were paramedics.
Speaking to Dawn, Dr Akram accepted the fact that far more patients died in Pakistan as compared to the global percentage of deaths.
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