Palliative care in Pakistan.

Related Articles Palliative care in Pakistan. Indian J Med Ethics. 2017 Jan-Mar;2(1):37-42 Authors: Khan RI Abstract Pakistan is a developing country of South East Asia, with all the incumbent difficulties currently being faced by the region. Insufficient public healthcare facilities, poorly regulated private health sector, low budgetary allocation for health, improper priority setting while allocating limited resources, have resulted essentially in an absence of palliative care from the healthcare scene. Almost 90% of healthcare expenditure is out of the patient’s pocket with more than 45% of population living below the poverty line. All these factors have a collective potential to…
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