{"id":1599,"date":"2022-02-04T12:18:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pide.org.pk\/blog\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T07:18:13","slug":"spending-public-money-where-it-makes-more-sense-universal-health-coverage-uhc-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pide.org.pk\/blog\/spending-public-money-where-it-makes-more-sense-universal-health-coverage-uhc-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending Public Money Where It Makes More Sense! Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> By Syeda Anam Fatima Rizvi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newspaper advertisement for the post of <em>\u201cCEO-Sehat Sahulat Program in Pakistan\u201d<\/em> sought a highly qualified and relevant person. The advertisement mentioned in the job description that selected candidate will lead the <em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmhealthprogram.gov.pk\/\">Sehat Sahulat Program<\/a>\u201d<\/em> being run in program districts. However there is no mention of contract period for the post. As the name says it\u2019s the post of CEO for a program; which means the <strong>program<\/strong> is likely to <strong>stay<\/strong>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/countryplanningcycles\/sites\/default\/files\/planning_cycle_repository\/pakistan\/national_health_vision_2016-25_30-08-2016.pdf\">National Health Vision 2016-2025<\/a> also recognizes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhcpartnership.net\/country-profile\/pakistan\/\">Universal Health Coverage<\/a> (UHC) as top priority among Pakistan\u2019s health objectives. It is aligned with national programs and policies such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finance.gov.pk\/poverty\/PRSP-II.pdf\">Poverty Reduction Strategy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ppaf.org.pk\/\">pro-poor social protection<\/a> initiatives.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/pide.org.pk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image.png\" class=\"wp-image-1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pide.org.pk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image.png 480w, https:\/\/pide.org.pk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/pide.org.pk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case of developing countries like Pakistan, new private health care systems are mushrooming. Health care facilities are upgrading from consultations to all under one roof health care solutions. Model is perfect, however like other developing countries Pakistan has an underdeveloped Health Insurance sector. The coverage is very low and that too is limited mostly to employer financed basis insurance protection. That means there is no motivation to top-up by employee him\/herself. So it\u2019s a step in the right direction. However after the <a href=\"https:\/\/na.gov.pk\/uploads\/documents\/1302138356_934.pdf\">Eighteenth Amendment<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/na.gov.pk\/uploads\/documents\/1333523681_951.pdf\">Constitution<\/a>, Health is a devolved subject. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Punjab government approved a UHC program for the province&#8217;s population by December 2021 with an allocation of PKR 80 billion. KPK had already extended such coverage and Baluchistan government has also followed suit. The Universal coverage in Punjab will be provided by extending Punjab government Sehat Sahulat Program (SSP). The newly developed <a href=\"https:\/\/phimc.punjab.gov.pk\/\">Punjab Health Initiative Management Company<\/a> (PHIMC) is running this program. The program has now enrolled more than 5.2 million families in Punjab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s a costly business if the governments run it along with regular allocations. As a result both federal and provincial governments are providing lesser resources than required. The dividends, however, far outweigh the costs if they think otherwise. Punjab taking the lead in overall allocation (PKR 727 per capita<sup><a id=\"post-1599-endnote-ref-1\" href=\"#post-1599-endnote-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> and 17% of the total Health allocations) followed by KPK (PKR 592 per capita and 11% of the total Health allocations) then Baluchistan (Rs 478 per capita and 10% of the total Health allocations). Sindh has yet to start its Universal health Insurance program (Federal government has taken the initiative of covering Tharparkar district in Sindh province). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public financing is essential for Universal Health Coverage to cover people who cannot contribute financially; whereas in case of Pakistan governments are going beyond this target by including all of its population irrespective of affordability (For example <a href=\"https:\/\/sehatcardplus.gov.pk\/\">Sehat Card Plus<\/a> by KP government is a Micro-health Insurance Program for all the citizens of KP). On the other hand existing modes of public health spending are intact. In fact increased resources have been provided in this year\u2019s budget. This is unsustainable and inefficient way of allocating scarce public resources. UHC is not simply about health financing, it\u2019s a complete paradigm shift in which private sector provides the services in an efficient and comprehensive manner and government\u2019s responsibility only becomes limited to provision of those medicines, health workers and health facilities which do not exist in private sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/pide.org.pk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pide.org.pk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png 630w, https:\/\/pide.org.pk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/pide.org.pk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1-418x300.png 418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Budget Allocations for Health FY 2021-22<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Present budget allocations are about PKR 815 billion in FY 2021-22 for health spending other than UHC. If we convert even 20% of this into financing for UHC, it will increase availability of about PKR 785 per capita for all of Pakistan. This would increase both the coverage and the scope of health care facilities for the whole population. Besides this would bring in private sector investment in health sector as well. Overall competition would increase the quality of health care and reduce the cost of service delivery which in turn would yield benefit in terms of increased health outcomes of the whole population. Even though we are heading in the right direction, we need some course correction and long-term planning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ol><li> For Population figures of 2017, census data is used Source: http:\/\/www.pakinformation.com\/population.html. <a style=\"font-size: revert;\" href=\"#post-1599-endnote-ref-1\">\u2191<\/a><span style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); font-size: revert; color: initial;\">   <\/span> <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>About the author:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syeda Anam Fatima Rizvi is PhD (Development Economics) Scholar at Universit\u00e9 Clermont Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syeda Anam Fatima Rizvi proposes converting 20% of the PKR 815 billion allocated in FY 2021-22 budgets for health spending into financing for UHC, to increase availability of about PKR 785 per capita for all of Pakistan. This would increase both coverage and scope of health care facilities for the entire population. Private sector investment in health sector should increase as well. Overall competition should boost quality of health care and reduce cost-of-service delivery, yielding increased health outcomes. We are headed in the right direction, but some course correction and long-term planning is called for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,408,7],"tags":[515,516,517,514],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spending Public Money Where It Makes More Sense! 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