Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho

My speech today at child life emergency civil hospital Karachi. Celebrating 15 years of public private partnership between Government of Sindh and the Childlife foundation. We have built 9 Emergency Centers to international standards in every teaching hospital in Sindh. We have also opened 106 tele-medicine centers in every thesil in Sindh. Providing free of cost emergency services to children across the province and combating infant mortality. Infant mortality rates in Sindh now stand at 2.9% while rest of Pakistan is at 5.4% infant mortality rate. US based PALISI Global health reports that both Sheikh Zayed Children Hospital Larkana & Civil Hospital Karachi have a 1.2% mortality rate. Compared to 1.4% for Agha Khan which is a Private hospital and 6.3% rate in 19 similar countries. Our child-life facility is now the only public sector pediatric facility in Pakistan to be rated 5/5 SafeCare Quality level. Proud of everyone who has been a part of the successful transformation of Sindh’s healthcare over the last 15 years. Speech clips in 🧵 below

Todays signing of the MOU formally handing over NICH, NICVD, and JPMC to Sindh Government by the Federal Government is a testament to the investment we have made to make these institutions world class facilities that treat all Pakistani citizens absolutely free of cost. It is a testament not only of the Pakistan Peoples Partys commitment to free, quality, public healthcare, but also to the power of the 18th Amendment that has allowed us to invest in our hospitals and create a public healthcare system that works for all.