Online Academics and COVID-19 on April 27, 2020The menace of COVID – 19 is threatening not only the lives and economic well being of people but placing the academic careers of the generation currently enrolled in educational institutes in a case of classical jeopardy. The challenge of this strain of virus is unprecedented in modern times. The vaccine for COVID – 19 […]
Systematic destruction of rehabilitative healthcare facilities for refugees on October 18, 2019Rehabilitative health care concerns are emerging in Indian Occupied Kashmir, Syria, Yemen, Occupied Palestinian Territory, and contiguous adjoining areas of Pakistan’s Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A multifaceted humanitarian emergency involving emergency health response is unfolding in Syria .The World Health Organization is working with the Palestinian Ministry of Health and Office of the United […]
Health plight of refugees — EU & INGO’s on September 8, 2019The EU is proceeding on the premise and touchstone of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the 1951 Refugee Convention enshrining explicit arrangements to cater to heightened risk and humanitarian emergencies laying down the basis of policy mechanism to enable a barrier free entry into the EU by marginalized […]
Digital Healthcare — a far cry on August 10, 2019The public sector healthcare structure of Pakistan can be revamped through a digital revolution by moving away from voluminous paperwork. Advocates of digital healthcare project the success of health care such as data base storage, usage of drones to transport medicines to patients in remote or inaccessible locations, creating applications to track patients, research applications, […]
Health innovation need of the hour on April 19, 2019Rising health systems requirements in Europe ,compounded by welfare or insurance funded healthcare structure and swamped by an influx of refugees from conflict zones of the Arab world, face immense pressures to adapt their outlay patterns to altering demographics, swelling disease burdens, patient empowerment and adoption of innovative digital health technologies. In response a European […]
Gender disability gap on January 31, 2019Gender is a significant category of social organization, however, patterns of deprivations are associated with differences in gender as seen in women with disabilities (WWD) confronted with multiple discriminations and routinely denied legitimate expectations of their human rights by virtue of a lesser status ascribed to them in Pakistan’s patriarchal society. Commonly, WWD suffer discrimination […]
Conflict Management and Rehabilitation in Tribal Areas on January 15, 2019In the light of international precedents and pacts the global community is moving away from conflict and towards the management, rehabilitation and mainstreaming of individuals living in war torn areas. Conflict retards development of any country mired in deprivation and poverty. Individuals cannot exploit their potential in an authoritarian environment and thus we have the […]
IDP’s disability — Pakistan pays a cost on December 14, 2018There has recently been a flurry of scholarly publications by international humanitarian organizations to perhaps compensate earlier oversight or academic guilt signifying increasing disability consciousness especially around World Disability Day. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRD) highlights the situation of disabled persons affected by humanitarian emergencies and calls for […]
Out of the peripheries-Mainstreaming disabilities on August 14, 2018The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognises four disabilities namely hearing, vision, physical and intellectually challenged. As per UN estimates nearly 80percent of persons with disabilities (PWDs)live in developing countries, and girls with disabilities are especially vulnerable as not only does it take them longer to acquire adequate employment it is mostly not meaningful, and the […]
Living in denial on April 24, 2018Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) are oriented towards achieving sustainable development and SDG 3 specifically relates to health envisaging beside other diseases to reduce through prevention and treatment to one third by the year 2030 premature mortality from Non-Communicable Disease (NCD’s). Pakistan ratifies international covenants yet lags in abiding by commitments and timelines. The target for […]