2 National Institute of Health (NIH):
The Pakistan National Institute of Health (NIH) has important role in
preventing virus by circulating protocols regarding Covid-19 prevention,
transmission and also launching public awareness campaigns throughout
country (Khanain, 2020). These can be related to use biosafety hazards
such as wearing facemasks and gloves, use of personnel protective
equipment, handling of suspected cases, sample collection and transport
of virus, adequate hand washing and body hygiene, etc. (Saqlain et al.,
2020).
During the starting days of epidemic Pakistan lacked proper diagnostic
facility and suspected samples were sent to foreign laboratories for
testing (Saqlain et al., 2020). Later Pakistan receive test kits from
the China and primers from the Japan to detect virus. According to
federal government Pakistan is now capable of testing samples within the
country at the main laboratory at the NIH. The federal NIH also supports
all Pakistani provinces for establishing provisional surveillance units
(Khanain, 2020).