Polio and the PTI
Polio has become an epidemic in Pakistan. We have failed to control the virus and are notoriously now as the hub of breeding and spreading polio around the world. Within…
Call of duty
WHEN a community healthcare worker in Pakistan leaves her home armed with a medical kit, she may have stepped on the frontline of a dangerous war in which extremists stand…
Shape of a health insurance regime
In an earlier article, this writer had argued for group-based/community-based health insurance schemes. This article describes what such a pilot scheme could look like for replication on a larger scale.…
Why not Pakistan?
THIS country has been falling behind in many social development indictors in comparison to regional countries. This comes out clearly when the recent trajectory of Nepal and Pakistan on mother,…
The unsung heroines
They are the easiest of targets, little groups of women, clutching medical boxes and knocking on doors. From modest entryways to hovels to elaborate doors of mansions, from huts in…
