Medical care biggest pull down for Chitralis

Chitral-- Though, being a remote part of an underdeveloped and ill managed country with galloping population, Chitral has it's own unique problems. Having given up natural living for the quick and readymade but unhealthy life style presented by modern day developments, Chitralis are facing growing problems particularly in the field of health and health care.

Getting used to artificial stuff of the bazaar, and fitting with the Chitrali axiom "milk paik o che dalda gani ghario te bik". the problems of ill health is becoming alarming in Chitral. The government hospitals are inadequate and are still very expensive as doctors implicitly refer  patients to private clinics and they have to buy medicines from open market which are formidably expensive and often there are complaints that the medicines are ineffective also.

One poor man talking to CN said he treated his wife for Rs 14000 between the local hospital and private clinics in Chitral town and after achieving no result took her to Peshawar where she finally recovered after my spending further Rs 5000. He said he is now under Rs 20000 debt and doesn't know how to repay it.

According to a survey, a poor man in Chitral is pulled down by medical care expenses and transportation costs followed by legal entanglements, more than anything else and if affordable medical care is made available to the poor people at least one and most important aspect would be taken care of and their lives could brighten up. --CN report 11 Dec 2011

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