{"id":93742,"date":"2020-09-26T17:21:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=93742"},"modified":"2020-09-26T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T12:21:33","slug":"pakistan-to-become-self-sufficient-in-medical-equipment-fawad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=93742","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to become self-sufficient in medical equipment: Fawad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Sep 26, 2020 (TNS): Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said that Pakistan will soon become self-sufficient in producing medical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a news conference in Lahore on Saturday, he said that a medical industrial unit will be established at Allama Iqbal Industrial City Faisalabad.<\/p>\n<p>He said that 1100 ventilators are being produced monthly in the country and a vaccine against COVID-19 is expected to be available by the start of next year.<\/p>\n<p>He said Pakistan is also working on local manufacturing of X-ray and dialysis machines.<\/p>\n<p>He said that 30 million syringes will be manufactured locally to administer vaccine of COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Sep 26, 2020 (TNS): Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said that Pakistan will soon become self-sufficient in producing medical equipment. Addressing a news conference in Lahore on Saturday, he said that a medical industrial unit will be established at Allama Iqbal Industrial City Faisalabad. He said that 1100 ventilators are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93743,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93742\/revisions\/93743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}