{"id":8324,"date":"2018-07-15T00:54:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T19:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lkmwt_v2.test\/?post_type=news&amp;p=8063"},"modified":"2018-07-15T00:54:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T19:54:17","slug":"should-healthcare-in-pakistan-be-a-matter-of-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/should-healthcare-in-pakistan-be-a-matter-of-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Healthcare in Pakistan be a Matter of Opportunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of Shah Faisal Colony in Karachi, 40 year old Sabra has been a regular visitor to\u00a0<a href=\"\/medi-health-clinic-1\/\">MediHealth-1<\/a>\u00a0for over a year. Sabra is a mother of five and her husband is a day laborer who is currently unemployed. Of Sabra\u2019s four sons, one is disabled and unable to walk; another in school and two working as mechanics at a local workshop. Rising prices and security threats have caused high unemployment rates and a large number of Karachi\u2019s slum dwellers are out of work. Still, lucky to have jobs and a household income, in the past Sabra\u2019s family had to choose between food to eat and a visit to the doctor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Latif Kapadia Memorial Welfare Trust\u2019s MediHealth<\/strong>\u00a0clinics are seeking to fill this gap in Karachi\u2019s social fabric by providing low cost healthcare facilities in those areas of the city where it is negligible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come to the clinic because I can afford it,\u201d says Sabra. \u201cThis clinic is at walking distance from my home and charges Rs. 30 per visit so I can afford to get treatment. Other clinics in the area are very expensive, charging Rs. 200 or more per visit. They are at a distance also, so I have to pay an additional amount for bus fare. With a family of seven and such rising prices, it\u2019s hard enough to get by let alone afford to be healthy. I am grateful for this facility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of Shah Faisal Colony in Karachi, 40 year old Sabra has been a regular visitor to\u00a0MediHealth-1\u00a0for over a year. Sabra is a mother of five and her husband is a day laborer who is currently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagging.synite.digital\/lkmwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}