UNDER REPORTING OF DISEASES:
A NEGLIGENCE OR A CRIME
Farah Asad Mansuri.
ABSTRACT
Pakistan is said to be under triple
burden of disease where we have not only the poor control on communicable
and non communicable diseases but a rising magnitude of accidents
including mass injuries out of terrorism. The consequences and predisposition
are well established everywhere. Ingenuity, knowledge and organization
alter but cannot cancel humanity's vulnerability to invasion by
parasitic forms of life. Infectious diseases which antedated the
emergence of mankind will last as long as humanity itself, and will
surely remain, as it has been hitherto, one of the fundamental parameters
and determinants of disease in human history (William H. Mcneil
in palgues and people 1976) ......
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