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Health care access to all in a given community is becoming a growing challenge for healthcare providers. Even a much greater challenge is provision of health care services with equity and fairness.1 Recent demographic changes in population with movement of people from rural to urban areas2 , coupled with growing elderly population and their increased health care needs3 , are burdening health care services on one end and technological advances offering expensive remedies for complex medical problems is making health care expensive in background of limited available resources.4 This situation is creating issues of access to healthcare in developing countries like Pakistan that have limited resources. Equity in healthcare requires provision of healthcare to all sections regardless of their ability to pay. Access and equity in delivery of healthcare services are issues and challenges facing countries like Pakistan.1 For Pakistan health related indicators are lagging far behind in comparison to other developing countries in the region;5 reasons being dysfunctional health care delivery system with lack of infrastructure, human and material resources. Most important is the lack of coordination between primary, secondary and tertiary level of healthcare leading to access and equity issue with poor health related outcome. Making healthcare delivery system more functional would require experienced primary care physician so that 90% of healthcare related problems can be identified and addressed outside hospital at primary care level. Left over 10% of patients making their way to the hospitals are of complicated enough nature to be dealt with effectively by secondary and tertiary level physicians. It will prevent primary care level issues going to secondary and tertiary level physicians. This strategy will lead to huge cost saving that will provide funds to promote access and equity to healthcare in the country by strengthening primary care services.

Waris Qidwai. (2015) Promoting Access and Equity in Healthcare: Issues, Challenges and Way Forward in Pakistan, Journal of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Volume-14, Issue-2.
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