Expert stresses for public-private partnership to strengthen primary healthcare.

ISLAMABAD -- Public-private partnership was the need of the hour to strengthen primary healthcare in the country which will improve indicators and provide basic health needs to urban slum populations, a health expert said.

CEO and Primary Healthcare Specialist SINA Clinics, Ambareen Kazim Thompson talking to PTV news said that the necessary measures were needed to promote family medicine through faculty development, medicine development, policy reform and targeted research,

She called for streamlining service delivery by implementing policies and engaging the private sector in delivery and monitoring.

She said that Pakistan's core focus should be on primary healthcare to diagnose ailments at early stages and reduce complications of chronic diseases, adding, investing more and better in primary healthcare was the...

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