Recently Pakistan’s tribal areas made the headlines again. This time the issue is health care access, or refusal thereof to be more specific. According to a report parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow workers to administer polio vaccines. This is blamed mainly on the fatwas (religious edicts) issued by the local… [Read more…]
March 1, 2007
In the US, when patients talk about wanting to avoid physicians they usually mean that they do not like the long waits, the extensive paperwork or the insurance hassles. However back home, when people talk about not wanting to go to a doctor’s office they are usually dreading doctors per se (apart from financial reasons).… [Read more…]
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March 11, 2007
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