Health Cover in Pakistan – Blog Post #418 by Asrar Qureshi
Health Cover in Pakistan – Blog Post #418 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues! This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #418. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. We take a break from the 'Story of a Pharma Salesperson’ and move on to other topics. We shall return to it later. ‘ Health For All ’ slogan has been around since long, and repeated by successive governments. We don’t know what exactly was intended by this slogan but all along we have been assuming it would mean Health Cover for everyone. It never materialized though. Government does have a large network of medical facilities where patients are treated for illnesses ranging from small problems to serious ones. Four levels of medical care are organized by the government. The Basic Health Units (BHUs) p...