Getz Pharma becomes first body to test all its employees for Covid-19

Getz Pharma is proud to announce that it is the first and only organisation in Pakistan to have taken the initiative of testing each and every employee for Covid-19, and to close its factory and head office in Karachi, completely, till every employee has been tested.

"Getz Pharma cares for your health has been the vision and mission from the day that the company started," said Khalid Mahmood, the company's Managing Director and CEO.

He added that caring for people means leading from the front and proving it when there is a crisis and when people are in need. "Today we feel fulfilled to inform our employees and the world that that we are living up to our mission, once again, and proving it by our actions."

From April 23rd, 2020, the factory and head offices will be closed and the facility will be turned into a huge Covid-19 testing and screening facility. Fifty six employees including senior managers and directors have been trained in using the FDA approved testing kits.

It is expected that the first wave of 100 percent testing will be completed in five days from today and all 1,300 employees of Getz Pharma's head office and factory premises would have been tested. The testing will be an ongoing activity based on an SOP made by the head of community health and medical research.

The implementation of the testing, subsequent quarantine and re-testing based on the SOPs by WHO, will minimise or nearly eliminate the infection at Getz Pharma and its spread to its employees, to their families and to their communities.

Those who are found negative will be allowed to enter the facility and work in WHO and PIC/s approved manufacturing facility and at the head office.