Article Reviews by Raheel Awan

Clearing Agent Granted Bail. & The Demand of reduced petrol and diesel prices Posted July 24, 2008 on The News

The first article for this subject is about the health sector in Pakistan, touching on the issue of two senior Directors of the JPMC (Jinnah Post-Medical Centre) who were transferred for reason: unknown. A demonstration was held by doctors and staff, calling this an administrative paralysis. The second article is a positive side to the health care sector. It states that 882 Basic Health Units had been made functional by the PPHP (People’s Primary Health Program).
What does this mean? Those doctors will be mistreated to save money for more equipment for hospitals? Why yes it does! The health sector is being developed but there are too many sub-sectors of the health sector that are being overlooked, like the “administrative paralysis” described earlier, that there is not enough decentralization coming about in the health sector.

People have to go from one place to another getting prescriptions, and medicines. The rural sector have to go to the big cities to get major operations done and minor operations have to either be put on hold or not done at all’ which can’t be relied upon in the villages or tehsils. As a personal experience, my cousin had an operation of his legs done, we had to bring him in our car and carry him up a couple flight of stairs with his IV still on! Another experience is that before dying two years ago, my grandmother had a major heart attach, my dad then had to call a private driver to take her to a hospital where she died just after half an hour. This states the importance of providing great medical support for our people in the rural sector, the sector that runs our economy.