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World economic forum recently revealed that the global health care industry stood at
US $ 7 trillion. The continuous rise in health care spending pushed governments to go
for tradeoffs with other priorities for instance education. Despite the latest innovations
in products and services yet governmental and nongovernmental organizations are
wrestling with ways to provide and pay for adequate prevention and treatment of health
related issues. The failure to manage health related issues, especially in developing
country like Pakistan, reveals the incapacity of existing health service provision model
in handling issues effectively. As a result of such incapacity, stems the need to develop
a vision that will not only treat, but prevents the issue at its initial phase. In order to fulfil
this task ISMC is building an effective network by approaching public / private agencies
and experts either from academia or health care industry to provide basic health facilities
in deprived regions of the country. Our council engages stakeholders to address health
challenges in the underserved regions of Pakistan. ISMC is partnering with schools in the
suburban areas to provide students free of cost medical facility. Our aim is to develop
primary health care network by holding weekly health camps in underserved regions.
Apart from these, our council targets to eliminate the root cause of health related
problems by spreading awareness from school level to communities through interactive
learning sessions. Whilst achieving this goal the ISMC plans to involve senior citizen and
students to volunteer (partial payments basis) and contribute their efforts to establish a
healthy culture and society.
Recently ISMC addressed the challenge of water born diseases, which are responsible for
80% of all diseases caused in Pakistan. A colossal figure of 40% deaths, in Pakistan, is
linked with water born diseases. United nation in a study mentioned that a huge percentage
of 62% (Urban) and 84% (rural) population fails to treat the water properly, which
consequently leads to registration of 100 million diarrhoea cases in Pakistani hospitals.
UNICEF revealed that 20% of hospital beds in Pakistani hospitals are occupied by these
patients. As indicated by Pakistan Economic survey poor drinking water and poor
sanitation facilities cost Pakistan a huge sum of Rs. 112 billion per year.