HYDERABAD: Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Sindh chapter has urged provincial government not to allow holding of cattle markets for sacrificial animals as it will wreak havoc with efforts to control the spread of Covid-19 and “open the floodgates for the deadly virus”.

The PMA office-bearers who met through a video conferencing application with its president Dr Mirza Ali Azhar in the chair on Thursday discussed one-point agenda of holding of cattle markets ahead of Eidul Azha in cities and towns across the country.

The meeting feared that no standard operating procedures would be followed by cattle sellers and buyers hence doctors believed permission for establishing cattle markets would play havoc with peoples’ lives as the places might become sources of rapid spread of Covid-19 and open the floodgates for the deadly virus.

Published in Dawn, June 26th, 2020

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