Abstract
Health is the topmost priority in every individual’s life. Good health
accelerates human efficiency and the development procedure, and as a
fundamental human right it should be accessible and reachable to all.
According to World Health Organization’s definition, “Health of an
individual or community is not only concerned with physical or mental
state but also an individual’s economic and social wellbeing.” The
research in hand focused on the Primary Health Care Services provided
by the Basic Health Units in Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Province, Pakistan. The objectives of the study were to assess the health
care services provided by the BHUs and to find out the hurdles in the way
of service delivery for the management of the BHUs. The universe of the
study was District Mardan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
The sample of the study was selected by multi-stage cluster sampling
techniques. The findings highlighted that most of the young people
especially women goes to these BHUs for mostly cough and flu or
gynecological problems, while mostly men of the area prefer to go to
private clinics. The older women cannot go to the BHUs because they have
difficulty in reaching these BHUs which are located far away from their
houses and the transport is not available for them in the area. Most of the
beneficiaries of the BHUs complained of low quality medicine, no waiting
area for the patients and attendants, and lack of LHVs or LHWs home
visits in the periphery.
Muhammad Ibrar, Raazia Hassan Naqvi. (2017) COMMUNITY SATISFACTION, CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF BASIC HEALTH UNITS IN PAKISTAN: AN ANALYSIS, Pakistan , Volume 53, Issue 1.
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