Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services Dr. Zafar Mirza on Monday said the government would soon start local production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits and N95 masks to effectively combat coronavirus (COVID-19).
In a televised daily briefing on COVID-19, Dr. Mirza said with achieving the capability of producing these important items at local level, the country would be able to manage its demand and supply in wake of prevailing high risk corona situation.
He said there was a plan to locally produce over 100,000 N95 masks on daily basis. He, however said the N95 mask was relevant to only frontline health teams including doctors and paramedical staff and it should not be used by citizens.
He advised people to avoid unnecessary use of N95 mask and strictly follow the social distancing and other precautionary measures against coronavirus.
He said the citizens should continue implementing protective measures as per health officials’ directions to prevent from carrying coronavirus, adding the government was making all out efforts to send protective equipment guidelines to all doctors, paramedical health workers and all others who were connected with coronavirus patients.
Latest new is Pakistan has started making their own N95 mask since May 2020 to handle the load.
At an estimate they are making around 200,000 masks per day.
Price is around PKR 200-350 each.
