UN relief chief Martin Griffiths has warned that hospitals are barely functioning in Gaza, adding that the situation in Gaza was a “public health disaster in the making”.
He added that infectious diseases, coupled with injured people not receiving treatment, exacerbated the crisis.
The government no longer has the budgetary space to continue carrying hundreds of billions of rupees in untargeted subsidies while the power sector itself remains trapped in circular debt, inefficiencies, theft and under-recovery.
Our financial system is geared towards short-term, risk-averse lending, while climate adaptation and green infrastructure require patient, long-term capital.