Health workers in Herat tested positive as Afghanistan reports 2,0342 Covid-19 cases

Outbreak of the coronavirus has seriously hampered the health care services at Herat’s largest hospital. Herat’s regional hospital has 650 beds and around 1,000 health workers. Arif Jalali, head of the hospital told Kabul Now that almost 60 percent of the staffs are suspected of being infected by the coronavirus.

The intensive care unit, ICU, of the hospital is closed. Health Officials say that all the employees in the ward have been fallen ill with Covid-19. Severely ill-patients are discharged from the ICU and transferred to surgical ward. Many patients in the ICU need ventilators and specialized health care but there are not enough facilities in the surgical department, and the chance of dying for these patients is high.