Let’s say it loud…

Where 25 percent of the population lives below poverty line and around 75 percent with a dollar per day, where government spends no more than one percent of its budget on health sector, a tower containing health facilities of international standards for affluent only will be like making mockery of the poor. It is expected that this 14 storey building in the premises of Pakistan institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) will cost Rs. 2 billion of tax payer’s money and will be accessible to elite only.
While moving around in Karachi it feels like life is hell for the poor. Having seen all the fun activities of politicians in my beloved country I assume that poor, for parliamentarians, are not worth living, on the extreme I don’t know even if they think these masses belong to Homo sapiens.
Alas! Every night when I cross the crowded area of Saddar Karachi, I happen to see the brazen face of poverty prevalent in the eyes of street dwellers. They try injecting themselves with strong narcotics to get away with the life and they don’t need doctors to cure them of chronic poverty the have been facing for decades. I want to ask what good will be done to them to them by operating another such tower that Prime Minister Aziz have announced to be built in premises of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) at Karachi at cost Rs 3.418 billions? In government records show that the economy is stable and progressing but seems it is only in the ledgers of concerned department only. Why don’t we try to come out of euphoria to deal this situation, we have our justification and we are experts in blaming system. Let’s step ahead and try making some difference in our own spheres, let’s not behave like we have kept behaving… Atleast, we can reject these weakness by voicing our concern loud! Let’s say it loud….