Excluded from healthcare
WOMEN’S access to healthcare in Pakistan is shaped not only by poverty, but also by the intersection of documentation, marginalisation and gender. After more than a decade of work in…
Healthcare math
Pakistan stands at the brink of a healthcare crisis. The warning signs are flashing – overwhelmed hospitals, absent care in rural areas and a crippling shortage of frontline responders during…
Our healthcare workforce crisis
Imagine a country where a woman dies every 50 minutes from pregnancy-related complications. That’s not fiction – that’s Pakistan in 2024, according to the UNFPA. Now add a healthcare system…
Improving mental healthcare
A COUNTRY’S socioeconomic challenges and the risk of ill mental health among the population are closely related. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there is a benefit-cost ratio of…
Reimagining healthcare
IN the face of stark adversity, a drop of ‘re-imagination’ has fallen in the stagnant, stinky waters; stirring them, and creating the first small ripples. I hope the ripples grow…
Urban healthcare
OVER 55 per cent of the world population lives in cities. With fast-growing urbanisation, this figure is set to rise to 68pc by 2050. Pakistan is one of the most…
Healthcare during floods
PAKISTAN has been hit by unprecedented deadly floods. These are flash floods to be exact, which are caused by rapid and excessive rainfall that raises water heights quickly, overtaking rivers, streams,…
Healthcare reforms
PAKISTAN is a struggling nation. The country spends billions of rupees on the education of medical students in public-sector universities. But they either opt to move abroad for greener pastures…
PMDC tells medical colleges to set up five primary healthcare centres in their vicinity
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has directed all the private and public medical and dental colleges across the country to establish primary healthcare (PHC) centres, under which every…
ChatGPT as pivot for digital healthcare professionals
30th November 2022 heralded the dawn of a major paradigm shift in the machine-based learning world. On that fateful date, Open AI, an American tech firm, publicly launched ChatGPT, a…
