Karachi: US government presented a mobile biosafety laboratory to Sindh Department of Health to strengthen capacity to diagnose Covid-19 and other communicable diseases, especially in Pakistan’s remote locations where there is limited capacity to monitor and test for potential outbreaks of infectious disease.  

This state-of-the-art laboratory will improve accuracy of diagnoses, reduce testing turnaround time and better protect healthcare workers.

US Consul General Mark Stroh and Sindh Minister for Health and Population Welfare Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho participated in handover ceremony, along with officials from Sindh Department of Health.  Sindh ceremony follows a ceremony on July 6, in which US Ambassador Donald Blome handed over four mobile laboratories in Islamabad to Pakistan’s National Institute of Health.

“I am pleased to present this mobile biosafety laboratory to health leadership of Sindh government to serve people of Sindh as well as Balochistan,” Consul General Mark Stroh said.

Consul General Stroh commended all of Pakistan’s health care workers for their effective response to Covid-19 endemic and in particular, Sindh’s successful vaccination campaigns.  Azra Pechuho expressed gratitude for US government’s ongoing support through USAID on improving health services in province, especially during Covid-19 crisis.