Blind who -- state or citizens?

Harris Khalique The girl was six or seven years old. She was brought from a remote village in Balochistan to Dr Idrees Adhi, the reputed ophthalmologist in Karachi. But her eyes couldn't be saved. Dr Adhi felt so helpless because the disease was fully curable if the girl had reached him in time. The parents told him that it took them ten days to reach Karachi from their village because after their daughter developed the infection, it took them a week to raise money for travel and treatment. Another three days were consumed in reaching Karachi. The poor citizens of Pakistan die or suffer from curable diseases and spend a large part of their meagre incomes on getting ineffective treatments. Scores of women die everyday in childbirth and the infant mortality rate is comparable only to underdeveloped African nations. Epidemics... [read full story]