Senior doctor dies of Covid-19 in Karachi

KARACHI – Senior pae­diatrician Professor Dr Salahuddin Shaikh lost his battle with Covid-19 at a Karachi hospital on Sunday amid a steep rise of Omicron variant infections in the mega­city. The senior doctor was under treatment at a private hospital of Ka­rachi but breathed his last today. Dr Salahud­din Shaikh was a highly professional specialist of pediatrics practising in Clifton area of Kara­chi. The deadly coro­navirus continued to haunt the medics who were providing care and cure to the Covid patients. It is pertinent to note that the fourth wave of COVID-19 is taking Karachi by storm as the positivity ratio in the port city has surged to over 39 percent.