ISLAMABAD: All hospitals across Pakistan are taking necessary steps to deal with monkeypox after directives were issued from the country’s top health body, Minister for Health Qadir Patel said Wednesday.
The minister’s comments came during a special meeting of the Ministry of National Health Services Regulations and Coordination convened at the directives of Patel after the World Health Organisation (WHO) imposed an emergency on monkeypox.
The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the WHO’s highest level of alert, the organisation’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said last week.
