COVID-19 Testing Crisis Management Through a Public-Private Partnership in Sindh, Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic spread, meeting the testing needs to control the spread of infection became a major challenge worldwide. In Pakistan, the lack of the requisite infrastructure and training compounded the acute shortage of testing kits and other consumables. Against this backdrop and to urgently improve province-wide access to high-quality COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing with rapid turnaround times, the Government of the Sindh (GoS) province of Pakistan entered into a public-private partnership with Indus Hospital & Health Network (IHHN). Under this partnership, the GoS undertook sample collection and Indus Hospital in Karachi, Sindh, centralized testing. We describe the implementation strategies adopted by the partnership, as well as the chall

SUBMITTER: Jamal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8885349 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature