PHC and ‘qPHC’
“In medicine, we hold up ‘autonomy’ as a professional lodestar, a principle that stands in direct opposition to discipline.” — Atul Gawande in The Checklist Manifesto — How to get…
“In medicine, we hold up ‘autonomy’ as a professional lodestar, a principle that stands in direct opposition to discipline.” — Atul Gawande in The Checklist Manifesto — How to get…
MY quest for quality primary healthcare (PHC) continues. I see it as a panacea for health development in my country. We will never be able to improve our worst national…
SINCE the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978, there has been much rhetoric from the World Health Organisation (WHO) about primary healthcare, but little organised and specific guidance from it on how to…
LET me first clarify that while the title of this article might give the impression that we are educating and training our medical students about quality Primary Health Care (qPHC),…
Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has made it mandatory for all medical and dental colleges in the country to establish or adopt at least five primary healthcare (PHC) facilities.…
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has postponed the entry test scheduled for today (Thursday) for the Higher Education Commission (HEC) scholarships due to the deteriorating law and order situation in…
THE state’s role in health and healthcare is as fundamental as health being a fundamental human right. The WHO, of which Pakistan has been a member since the beginning, says…
IF health is a human right, then the inability to pay for essential healthcare should not be a barrier. This is why financial protection for healthcare is an integral component…
THE resounding message from occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s recent legislative elections is rejection of India’s Aug 2019 action that robbed the state of even the nominal autonomy it previously had. The verdict…
SEHAT Sahulat is a great programme but universal health coverage has a much larger vision. Sehat Sahulat is a state-financed health insurance system for the curative care of hospitalised patients,…