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According to a World Bank report, Pakistan’s per capita health spending is still below the World Health Organisation spending benchmark for low-income countries. Our healthcare sector has been a victim of broken promises and over-ambitious plans. While governments have conveniently blamed high population growth, uneven distribution of health professionals, deficient workforce for our failing healthcare system, lack of political will and inadequate funding probably are the most prominent factors that have jeopardised the healthcare sector in Pakistan.
In reality, the provision of quality healthcare depends most importantly on good governance — that the PML-N has been claiming credit for. For too long we have been spending too little on our healthcare. This can no longer continue. The failure to provide adequate and quality healthcare indicates that perennially troubled state health sector was never on the Pakistan Muslim League — Nawaz government’s priority list. Perhaps the 45 healthcare facilities were nothing more than just another promise — that wasn’t meant to be kept.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2018.
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