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The country's health sector is also marked by urban-rural disparities in healthcare delivery and an imbalance in the health workforce, with insufficient health managers, nurses, paramedics and skilled birth attendants in the peripheral areas. [5] [6] Pakistan's gross national income per capita in 2021 was $4,990 and the total expenditure on ...
In Sindh (Province in Pakistan), Primary healthcare activities are supported by government itself but managed by external private & non-government organizations like People's primary healthcare initiative (PPHI Sindh), Shifa foundation, HANDS etc.A major strength of government's health care system in Pakistan is an outreach primary health care ...
In its 2000 assessment of world health systems, the World Health Organization found that France provided the "best overall health care" in the world. [125] In 2005, France spent 11.2% of GDP on health care, or US$3,926 per capita. Of that, approximately 80% was government expenditure.
Health care in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan is administered by both private and public health care providers. [1] Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings. Health care is delivered by practitioners in allied health, dentistry, midwifery ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) ranked the health systems of its 191 member states in its World Health Report [1] 2000. It provided a framework and measurement approach to examine and compare aspects of health systems around the world. [2] It developed a series of performance indicators to assess the overall level and distribution of health ...
Botswana established a free healthcare system that operates a system of public medical centers, with 98% of health facilities in the country run by the government. [citation needed] All citizens are entitled to be treated in taxpayer funded facilities, though a nominal fee of ~70 BWP (~US$6.60) is typically charged for public health services except for sexual reproductive health services and ...
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan was established in 2012 and is the largest department in the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, with its headquarters in Islamabad and regional offices in the provincial capitals of Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta. DRAP has been established by the Federal Government ...
Hospitals in Pakistan. The Punjab Healthcare Commission ( reporting name: PHC پی ایج سی) is an autonomous health regulatory body that regulate the hospitals, clinics, laboratories and other health centres in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. [1] It was established by the Government of the Punjab under the Punjab Healthcare Commission Act ...