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The Health Problem in Pakistan - By Fahd Shariff
Satta is a daughter, a mother, a wife, a housemaid and a caregiver to her mother, Jantay Bibi, who is suffering from Tuberculosis and has come to live with her daughter ever since her husband died. Every year tuberculosis takes over 3 million lives in Pakistan. ... A birds eye view of the present health situation is horrible. To start with the earliest periods of life, Pakistan had a very high infant mortality rate: 110 per 1000 children born alive. ... 2 million, Pneumonia 3 million and poor health services almost 7 million. ...
Inspite of there being large room for improvement, the Government has taken no concrete steps to upgrade health services.
Approximate Word count = 534 Approximate Pages = 2.1 (250 words per page double spaced)
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