Health Care Dilemma | Cost & Quality
Every day, people die due to
lack of access to sufficient medical care. Health care costs have soared in the past several years, posing a dilemma for everyone, especially those who have financial difficulties.
Why does basic health care cost so much?
What do we get for all that money?
Let’s look at a few facts as an example:
Infant and maternal mortality rate in Pakistan is the highest among SAARC countries and one child dies in the country every minute from EPI disease, diarrhea and acute respiratory infections.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that the out-of-pocket health expenditure in Pakistan stands at 71 per cent — the highest in the Eastern Mediterranean region — and a burden for the poor.
The unregulated private sector delivers a high proportion of health services and there is a great discrepancy in the quality of services.
Those who can only afford to pay a little usually get the poorest quality of the services, says a World Health Organization review on health inequalities in Pakistan.
In rural areas, the very poor women and men avail government services as they can afford only those.
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