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Healthcare Landscape in Pakistan – Facilities for Disabled – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 983 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 983 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Antoni Shkraba Credit: Eren Li Credit: Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz Credit: Sany Nur Credit: Shvets Production World Health Organization – WHO – states that people with disabilities, throughout the life course, have unequal access to healthcare services, have greater unmet healthcare needs, and experience poorer levels of health compared with the general population. As a result, people with disabilities have poorer health outcomes than the general population.  People with disabilities frequently experience preventable diseases and report high incidence of risk behavior such as obesity, smoking, and physical inactivity. It means a par...

Patients’ Attendants – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #565 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #565. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. When we talk about healthcare systems, providers, professionals, paramedics, diagnostic technicians etc., our entire focus is on patients, and rightly so. What we do not talk about is that in all healthcare facilities in Pakistan, the patients are required to bring attendants with them to take care of them. Except for ICUs in selected hospitals, the healthcare facility requires the presence of at least one attendant who must stay in the ward with the patient. This is necessitated that none of our hospitals is designed to take care of the patients independently. It means they do not have e...