UHC monitoring in Pakistan

UNIVERSAL Health Coverage is always a work in progress. This is why ‘advancing UHC’ is better phrasing than ‘achieving UHC’. As I have written previously on these pages, despite a multidimensional public health crisis in the country, there have been some important developments with regard to UHC in Pakistan, including the development of the Essential Package of Health Services at the national and provincial level, and health insurance in the form of the Sehat Sahulat programme, albeit limited to hospitalisation.