By: Zain Ali
Intern at the office of Director of Public Relations
Good health is one of the primary needs of every human it is famously said that “Health is wealth”. Good health is indeed a wealth a person who lives a healthy life is considered the happiest person living on the planet. Good health is all about doing your work properly without feeling any kind of physical problem. A healthy person lives a very happy and comfortable life, now the question arises what are the signs that you are living a healthy life? The answer is when a person carefully measures all prerequisites life do what makes him healthy maintains his proper diet and follow the basic health rules avoid un necessary kind of stuff that can damage his health routine through all of these he can live a happy and healthy life but this is the very ideal case. We have seen that every human being is suffering from some sort of problem regarded to his health, such problems lead that person to disturbing decease then that person refers to a doctor severe condition leads him to be admitted in the hospital if remains unhandled it can cause him death.
Before discussing the health issues of Pakistan we should know that Pakistan is a third-world country the poor economic condition in short words Pakistan is considered a primitive society is usually known as the un renaissance society where the majority of people don’t even know about the critical phases of life in countries like Pakistan where there are limited economic resources how we can expect that there should be a high standard of health facilities. Unfortunately, the development of modern dilemma is very heartbreaking hospitals are now opened just for doing business, particularly private sector hospitals are just opened to obtain a huge sort of capita from it in ancient times people considered doctors as their saviors but those saviors are converted into butchers who usually butch their patients with having any kind of sound knowledge and experience newly becoming doctors are handling crucial cases in our hospitals. The Pakistani health system is considered one of the most expensive and pathetic kinds of the health system.
The Pakistani health system includes the following statistical facts and figures which are mentioned as:
25 % of this gathering is qualified however 75% are simply locally prepared in centers and pathology labs. We don’t have life-saving paramedics besides those in the military. Profoundly Trained Portable Paramedics This is an extremely late expansion to the framework. Right now these are just tracked down in Lahore the public authority of Pakistan burns through 3.1 percent of its GDP on financial, social, and local area administrations and 43 percent is spent on obligation adjusting. Around 0.8 percent is spent on medical services, which is even lower than Bangladesh (1.2 per penny) and Sri Lanka (1.4 percent). However, the well-being status of the populace has worked on throughout the course of recent many years the pace of vaccination of kids has dramatically increased, also, the information on family arranging has expanded amazingly and is practically all-inclusive. For over a portion of the populace (66%) living in the rustic piece of the country destitution combined with lack of education, the low status of ladies, and lacking water and disinfection offices have profoundly affected well-being markers. Next to restricted information on disease and health, social remedies, the impression of a well-being administration and supplier, and social obstructions, the cost has been a significant hindrance to the arrangement of a successful well-being administration. This has impacted the physical and monetary availability of the well-being administrations. The medical services framework in Pakistan contains general society along with private well-being offices. Area In metropolitan pieces of the country, some open private association propositions exist through diversification of private wellbeing outlets. These have been fruitful generally in raising the degree of consciousness of positive well-being conduct among individuals. For example, the rising preventative predominance rate is because of the endeavors of NGO areas and the LHWs of the public authority. By the by, essential medical services exercises have not achieved expected upgrades in wellbeing rehearses particularly of provincial populace gatherings. In a few areas of provincial Pakistan, more than 90% of conveyances are performed by undeveloped or semi-prepared dais or Customary Birth Attendants (TBAs). Among other different what’re more, multi-layered reasons, an ineffectively working reference framework might be somewhat to a fault. Given the intricate idea of the medical services conveyance framework in Pakistan and the restricted assets accessible to the medical services area, it is fundamental for the different areas to plan and cooperate to work on the wellbeing of Pakistanis. In this manner, it is essential to comprehend the well-being looking for the conduct of the populace and the variables driving this way of behaving. In South Asia, the size of the families using cash on hand consumption on well-being is now and again 80% of the aggregate sum spent on medical care per annum. Financial capacity to utilize well-being administrations has not been altogether different in Pakistan as well. For wellbeing costs in Pakistan, 76% leave the pocket. This very factor likewise chooses the proportion of capacity of an individual or a family in general to fulfill their requirement for well-being care. The expense has without a doubt been a significant obstruction in looking for proper medical services in Pakistan. This intricacy is reflected in the well-being looking for conduct including the utilization of home remedies and self-curing with medication acquired from a neighbor or bought from the scientific expert shop. In NHS, little contrast is seen regarding wellbeing administration use by financial status. This irrelevant contrast in patterns of usage of wellbeing administrations between rustic and metropolitan populace doesn’t mirror that the two layers of populace partake in similar wellbeing status. However rustic poor have all the more requirements yet they need quality administrations and need banned-based. The distance isolating patients from the closest wellbeing office has been commented as a significant obstruction to utilize, especially in country regions. In NHS, discoveries uncover that no less than 5% go to hakims, homeopaths, and confidence healers. This portrayal looks exceptionally modest because the conventional convictions will generally be entwined with characteristics of the actual disease and an assortment of fortuitous, monetary, and social elements. The closest and most accessible wellbeing supplier in a provincial closeness would be a non-formal expert, who might be counseled predominantly in light of the minimal expense brought about. Family financial matters limit the decision and chance of well-being chasing
Poor women give birth to their babies on roads or even in the reception of a beautifully constructed hospital because their families do not have enough amount to get their women admitted to the hospital and our beautifully constructed hospital is not enough good who could accommodate those women free of cost that is the worst image of our health system. Public sector hospitals are unhygienic and they do not have proper facilities to accommodate a patient numerous patients are admitted in a single room. Where there is no proper management of waste and hygiene emergency cases are dealt with in a very furious and very unforgiving manner. It is also observed that in private hospitals doctors don’t even visit again to their patients after a one-time visit nursing staff deal with the patient, they usually mishandle certain cases which put the family of the patient in a state of immense misery and lifetime regret.
Sargodha is the eleventh biggest city in Pakistan but resourcefully Sargodha is underdeveloped as compared to the other cities of Pakistan due to lack of industrialization. Sargodha is famously known as the city of eagles but it is a very weird prospect that in modern times Sargodha is also called the “city of hospitals” due to the development of big and attractive buildings and developing a multi-purpose hospital right there. One after another many hospitals as well as their VIP blocks are also constructed but the major question is the quality of health facilities offered there the answer will be No! it has been observed that many patients are unsatisfied due to the treatment as well as the behavior of the staff as well as their senior doctors. Sargodha is just like a market of hospitals story of other cities of Pakistan is also similar to the story of the city of eagles there is no proper check and balance on a governmental level. Medicines are too much expensive which is out of the range of a poor person working on a very low income. Ex prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan announced a project Sehat Insaf card which consisted of an amount through which every citizen of Pakistan can have the facility of free treatment but unfortunately, we have also seen scams in it doctors hiked the price of treatment as they come to know that payment will be deducted from the account of government. But after ousting of Imran khans government there were rumors that the sehat card has been dismissed. The Pakistani health system has major flaws starting from hygiene to the treatment process of doctors numerous amount of hospitals with no facilities are one of the biggest problems faced by Pakistani citizens.
Sargodha is the eleventh biggest city in Pakistan and it is also the center of attraction for the people having the mindset to develop small industries Sargodha has 7 tehsils consisting of 9 THQs and single tuberculosis (TB) treated hospital there are 12 RICs in rural as well as in central Sargodha and there are 134 basic health units that are of government domain in Sargodha moreover there are numerous private hospitals in Sargodha working on different domains but the major question that arises in the minds of every citizen of Sargodha is of the facilities they are providing there are about 50 private sector hospitals located in Sargodha and one of the significant things to notice about those hospitals is that they all have constructed multi-purpose buildings of all of these hospitals number of patients are admitted in their respective departments but we come to see that no proper medication has been given to them as they are treated mercilessly
Cancer is one of those diseases treatment which is very expensive moreover treatment of cancer is a very time taking process four to five years can be taken to treat cancer when we see that in countries like Pakistan treatment of cancer is a very tough task for poor people can’t afford the treatment as well as medicines to be consumed after it our health system also doesn’t support such peoples having low socio-economic background.
The panacea of our health flaws is very simple there should be a proper check and balance on the prices of treatment as well as medicines because the health system should be equal for the person having high socioeconomic background and person having low socioeconomic background moreover quality checking should be made necessary for every hospital on strict basis government should design teams consisting of specialists of every field to check that a hospital having a lavishing building is also providing facilities to its patients or not? Deterrent punishments should be given to such doctors or staff who would be found guilty in case of any casualty due to the uncareful handling of patients. That’s how we can improve our health system which has been mercilessly damaged since the emergence of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
