Quack medical practitioners
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Dawn, Pakistan,Thursday, 23 Jul, 2009
FAKE and under-qualified medical practitioners are an inevitable menace in a country where the needs of a largely uneducated population are being addressed by an overstretched and inefficient public healthcare system. These quacks take advantage of the citizenry’s lack of awareness and exploit the need for medical aid. It is estimated that the number of fake medics across the country runs into hundreds of thousands. The ‘medicine’ they practise includes specialised fields such as dentistry, bone-setting and antenatal care. The state’s poor record in prosecuting such offenders means that the quacks routinely fleece citizens as well as endanger the lives of unsuspecting patients through medical malpractice.
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FAKE and under-qualified medical practitioners are an inevitable menace in a country where the needs of a largely uneducated population are being addressed by an overstretched and inefficient public healthcare system. These quacks take advantage of the citizenry’s lack of awareness and exploit the need for medical aid. It is estimated that the number of fake medics across the country runs into hundreds of thousands. The ‘medicine’ they practise includes specialised fields such as dentistry, bone-setting and antenatal care. The state’s poor record in prosecuting such offenders means that the quacks routinely fleece citizens as well as endanger the lives of unsuspecting patients through medical malpractice.
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Labels: Health Care System, Health Policy, Quack Medical Practitioners
posted @ 1:25 PM,
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Public health challenges
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Daily Times, Pakistan,Tuesday, June 16, 2009
development: Syed Mohammad Ali
Punjab has been trying to sublet the management of health services within its basic health units to the Punjab Rural Support Programme. To further strengthen management of health service delivery, there is need to improve the delays in the procurement of essential drugs as well
Ensuring the physical well being of its citizens may be the basic responsibility of a state, but doing so in effect poses significant challenges for our existing public healthcare system. Let us try and explore the concerned issues by focusing on just one province of the country, Punjab, which with 90 million people constitutes more then half the population of the entire country.
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development: Syed Mohammad Ali
Punjab has been trying to sublet the management of health services within its basic health units to the Punjab Rural Support Programme. To further strengthen management of health service delivery, there is need to improve the delays in the procurement of essential drugs as well
Ensuring the physical well being of its citizens may be the basic responsibility of a state, but doing so in effect poses significant challenges for our existing public healthcare system. Let us try and explore the concerned issues by focusing on just one province of the country, Punjab, which with 90 million people constitutes more then half the population of the entire country.
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Labels: Development, Governance, Health Policy
posted @ 11:15 AM,
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Healthcare concerns
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Dawn, Pakistan
Monday, 08 Jun, 2009
While this should at least facilitate the effective implementation of the health policy — non-implementation of policies and laws has been our biggest bane — the draft policy also needs a shift in emphasis. It focuses too heavily on tertiary care and the curative approach, with preventive medicine being given a passing mention. Infectious diseases which place a heavy burden on our health system can be prevented through low-cost methods. But the policy is more concerned about setting up expensive surveillance mechanisms to monitor and test high-profile diseases that periodically cross our borders. There is not enough concern for water-borne diseases and others transmitted by vectors that can be prevented by greater public hygiene and better civic management. If the medical professional bodies had been consulted, perhaps the policymakers would have done better on this score.
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Monday, 08 Jun, 2009
While this should at least facilitate the effective implementation of the health policy — non-implementation of policies and laws has been our biggest bane — the draft policy also needs a shift in emphasis. It focuses too heavily on tertiary care and the curative approach, with preventive medicine being given a passing mention. Infectious diseases which place a heavy burden on our health system can be prevented through low-cost methods. But the policy is more concerned about setting up expensive surveillance mechanisms to monitor and test high-profile diseases that periodically cross our borders. There is not enough concern for water-borne diseases and others transmitted by vectors that can be prevented by greater public hygiene and better civic management. If the medical professional bodies had been consulted, perhaps the policymakers would have done better on this score.
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Labels: Governance, Health, Health Policy
posted @ 10:02 AM,
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