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Zafar MirzaDawn |
SEHAT Sahulat is a great programme but universal health coverage has a much larger vision. Sehat Sahulat is a state-financed health insurance system...
SIX days ago, The Lancet published an extraordinary article, titled ‘The Lancet and Colonialism: Past, Present, and Future’. The authors include...
“In medicine, we hold up ‘autonomy’ as a professional lodestar, a principle that stands in direct opposition to discipline.” — Atul Gawande...
THE health of the 2024 elections is not too far from the health of the nation. Let’s take a look at the manifestos of the main political parties...
IN my last column, I discussed the Essential Health Services Package (EHSP). I mentioned that healthcare systems act through three approaches: by...
I RECEIVED a lot of feedback on my article ‘Robotic priorities’, including some from defensive robotic surgeons! Some readers have asked about the...
I HAVE a broken record of writing on these pages about the importance of primary healthcare. Strengthening PHC is the only way to address our abysmal...
MENTAL healthcare is too important to be left to psychiatrists or psychologists alone. In low-resource settings like ours, unaddressed mental health...
WHEN resources are scarce, priorities are set carefully to avoid compromising on necessities. That is a basic economic rule applicable to all spheres,...
“No one commits suicide because they want to die”… “Because they want to stop the pain”. Tiffanie DeBartolo WHILE late Asim Jamil’s...
“There are wounds that never show on the body…” — Laurell K. Hamilton ASIM Jamil, a young man in his 30s, killed himself some days ago. A...
LAST month, the World Bank and the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics convened a two-day national dialogue titled ‘Reforms for a Brighter...
MY quest for quality primary healthcare continues. I see it as a panacea for health development in my country. We will never be able to improve our...