He also claimed some 115 out of 100,000 women "die daily during child birth because of lack of facilities. "Some 140,000 new cancer patients are admitted to hospitals every year. Up to 43,200,000 people lack access to basic health facilities in the Punjab. Some 20 percent of people in the Punjab are suffering from hypertension and some 15 percent are patients of diabetes which is a major cause of kidney problems."
He went on, "In terms of the doctor-patient ratio, there are100 nephrologists for 200 million people in Pakistan whereas in America there are more than 5000 nephrologists for a population of 300 million. Water treatment plants are not present in dialysis centres for kidney patients. "Statistics, published by the Ministry of National Health services, shows that 140,000 new cancer patients are admitted to hospitals every year. Thirty district headquarter hospitals in the Punjab have zero facilities for cancer patients.
Every day children die in Lahore and in other cities because of the epidemic diphtheria. Only one doctor is present for 1,700 patients in the Punjab because of the incumbents' incompetence, miss-management and bad-governance in the health sector."
He then went on to say in the Punjab every third child below the age of five was estimated to be underweight. "The situation in the basic healthcare for children paints an equally dismal picture. A report says the infant mortality rate in the Punjab is 77 per 1000 children, while that of the maternal mortality is 300 per 100,000 births. Every eighth woman is suffering from breast cancer in Pakistan for which Pakistan is ranked highest in Asia," he added.