Patient care crisis |
HEALTHCARE in Pakistan is a footnote. Claims by successive governments to introduce vast reforms with huge schemes ring hollow. Since healthcare has never appeared on the priority lists of rulers and political parties, citizens are left to endlessly grapple with gruesome ground realities. Recently, shocking videos about a woman giving birth in a Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre washroom went viral on social media, bringing the scourge of abysmal healthcare delivery to the front burner of public concern. The........