Zafar Mirza

The number of cases represents just the narrow tip of a huge submerged iceberg. Updated 31 Dec, 2021 08:15am

The most important voice of reason and courage on the incident has come from Javed Ahmad Ghamidi. Updated 17 Dec, 2021 08:11am

The word ‘unethical’ hardly conveys what is going on in the medical marketplace. Published 03 Dec, 2021 07:26am

It is time to reorganise the health system to implement essential health services packages. Updated 19 Nov, 2021 08:41am

Medical practitioners have wrongly promoted the idea that injections are needed for even minor ailments. Updated 05 Nov, 2021 07:59am

The condition and prospects of Afghanistan’s health sector are complex and grave. Updated 22 Oct, 2021 08:48am

This is the time for LMICs to inject innovative solutions into their health systems. Updated 08 Oct, 2021 08:20am

Primary healthcare is as much for healthy individuals as it for those suffering from ill health. Published 24 Sep, 2021 08:19am

Unregistered factories producing exclusively exportable products are effectively death traps for our workers. Updated 10 Sep, 2021 08:40pm

We have an eyes-wide-shut policy attitude when it comes to the population elephant in the room. Updated 27 Aug, 2021 08:10am

Social health insurance needs to be expanded to ambulatory poor patients in the private sector. Published 06 Aug, 2021 08:15am

Essential health services must cover the entire population, giving priority to the most vulnerable. Published 09 Jul, 2021 07:11am

Pakistan, despite being the fifth largest internal market in the world, has not paid attention to biological production. Updated 21 May, 2021 09:13am

Covid-19 has spotlighted the health sector like never before. Updated 07 May, 2021 08:44am

Expenditure on healthcare should be seen as an investment rather than a social overhead. Updated 09 Apr, 2021 08:33am

Making Covid vaccines commercially available changes the whole paradigm from public-health-need to ability-to-pay. Updated 30 Mar, 2021 07:59am