Medical Reforms affecting the common man

To provide a state with proper health and medical reforms is one of the primary objectives of any government. But unfortunately when one looks at the conditions of the medical reforms that are available in Pakistan, one is completely shocked.

Our main agenda of bringing NWFP to limelight is that only one fully functional hospital, (Lady Reading) operates in NWFP which deals with all the casualties that originate from all the terrorist attacks. The medical supplies are limited where as the hospital located in the capital of NWFP Peshawar is a time consuming drive from the other affected parts of the province. The government camps and medical aid groups are short on aid for the affected while international aid workers are a local target for the terrorists. Suicide bombings at the UN offices and World aid groups have led them backing out in significant numbers in the deadly province of NWFP. The province faces huge death tolls due to lack of infrastructure and equipment within the hospital and the hospital being understaffed. The other question that remarks is that although the bombs direct affecter’s are large in number the people involved indirectly due to these threats are on a large scale as well. No proper disposal of debris from bombs and shattered debris from blown up buildings has added to the already unhygienic conditions of the country adding to a large scale spread out of diseases including influenza, diarrhea, typhoid and hepatitis B.

Consequently, due to all these reasons we wonder, how can the common man survive? Just consider that a family of six, with only one independent provider for the rest. If he is struck with a medical issue and faces the physiological and psychological effects of his disease and is unable to cope with the stresses of life and on top of all this faces the day by day worsening economic conditions of Pakistan. How will that family manage? Unfortunately for us all, these examples are very abundant in nature.