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Healthcare Landscape in Pakistan – Private Sector – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 978 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 978 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: Anna Shvets Credit: Los Muertos Crew Credit: RDNE Stock Project In a study that the Lancet conducted, healthcare in Pakistan currently ranks 154th out of 195 countries in terms of overall performance. This included both public and private healthcare. I would start with the clarification that private healthcare sector, while doing a good job, is not providing world-class treatment as is claimed by them. Private healthcare outperforms their public counterparts, as measured by the overall quality of healthcare and patient satisfaction, latter being trumpeted more. I had quoted earlier also that the business generated by private hospitals is e...

Where is the Patient in Healthcare Landscape?  – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 963 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 963 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: Azra Tuba Demir Credit: Jonathan Borba Credit: LLos Muertos Crew Credit: Max Mishin Preamble Health and education are important subjects for politics and therefore get new ideas whenever a new government comes in. It is however a pity that previous government initiatives are usually scraped by the new government. Some may be baptized with a new name and launched again. In the education sector, Danish school was the last major initiative in Punjab which, surprisingly, is still running well. Sehat Card was the last major initiative from the PTI government. Present incumbent government has raised questions about it and its fate is still hang...