微保险Naya Jeevan：让更多巴基斯坦人病有所医_时事

微保险Naya Jeevan：让更多巴基斯坦人病有所医

Pakistan, like many other developing countries, has a health-care system that is split between low-cost government-funded hospitals offering basic services and expensive private-sector medical institutions. But the majority of the country's 190 million people have little access to health care.

与许多其他发展中国家一样，巴基斯坦的医疗体系既包括负责提供基本医疗服务的低价公立医院，也包括昂贵的私人医疗机构。然而，在巴基斯坦的1.9亿人口中，大多数人都很少能享受到医疗保健服务。

To overcome the system's flaws, some local social entrepreneurs are coming up with new ideas to provide the poor with access to better medical services.

为了弥补巴基斯坦医疗卫生体系的缺陷，当地的一些富有社会责任感的企业家正在提出一些新的想法，目的是让穷人拥有获得更好医疗服务的机会。

Government-funded facilities cover less than a third of the country's population because there simply aren't enough of them and some of them don't have the resources to offer advanced medical treatment, according to Sania Nishtar, founder of Heartfile, a nonprofit think tank in Islamabad. Most people would have to pay varying amounts out of their pockets to access private-sector services that tend to be expensive and aren't always reliable. As a result, many poor people end up with no access to health care at all.

伊斯兰堡非盈利智库Heartfile的创始人尼什塔尔(Sania Nishtar)说，公立的医疗机构只能满足巴基斯坦不到三分之一人口的需求，原因很简单，医疗机构的数量不足，而且其中的一些医疗机构不具备提供先进医疗服务所需的资源。大多数人要获得私营医疗机构的服务需要自己支付数额不等的费用，这些私营医疗机构往往非常昂贵，而且有时并不可靠。结果就造成许多穷人最终根本无法得到医治。

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