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Over the last two decades, as confirmed by the latest World Health Organisation report, the progress is strikingly visible in maternal mortality rate, skilled birth attendance and tuberculosis incidence. More impressively, however, the nation’s health professionals and doctors have successfully beat back the fatality threat from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
Yet the time is not ripe for celebrations on account of several reasons. Playing catch-up has knocked the wind out of our sails — taking much of the energy that would have been spent on getting the country across the finish line or the Sustainable Development Goals-3 set for the whole region. Several ther states, less burdened than us. fared better by implementing their SDG objectives through its localisation and integration with the country’s health strategies and plans at the national and provincial levels. We watch with interest, hope and anticipation as optimal improvements are sought in the health sector.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 1st, 2018.
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