ArticleTropical medicine and health2022
Infectious disease surveillance system in Pakistan: challenges and way forward.
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- Self-reported illnesses in Thatta: Evidence from a rural and underdeveloped district in Sindh province, Pakistan.PloS one · 2025Article
- The current state of primary healthcare in Pakistan: a way forward for low-to-middle income countries.Primary health care research & development · 2024Review
- Infection control practices in public sector hospitals of Punjab: a critical analysis.BMJ open quality · 2024Article
- Is Pakistan Well‑Positioned in the Global Health Security Scenario? An Exploratory Qualitative Study with Policy Experts and Public Health Professionals.Annals of global health · 2024Article
- Associations of the COVID-19 pandemic with the reported incidence of important endemic infectious disease agents and syndromes in Pakistan.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
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Abstract
Infectious Disease Surveillance (IDS) in the community is essential to prevent, control, and detect outbreaks. A strong surveillance system is a need of time for low to middle-income countries like Pakistan where around half of the reported deaths are due to infections that can be easily prevented in the presence of a surveillance system. Although Pakistan has IDS which monitors and collects the data on several infectious diseases, the system is unreliable, inadequate, and substandard. As a result, dengue, tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis B and C, and many other infectious diseases are still prevalent in Pakistan and unfortunately, the numbers are still rising. In this commentary, we have tried to highlight the problems the country is facing to establish a proper and self-sustainable surveillance system and have recommended some steps the relevant stakeholders should consider taking to make healthcare better in Pakistan.
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