Pakistan, June 29 -- In Mirpur Khas, a mother gave birth in a rickshaw. A child died from a treatable fever. A man with chest pains was turned away because the ECG machine didn't work. These are not rare tragedies, they are daily realities in a city that has been medically abandoned.
Despite being the fourth-largest city in Sindh, home to nearly 1.8 million people, Mirpur Khas has no fully functioning public hospital equipped to handle emergencies. The lack of accessible healthcare has left the city's residents vulnerable, forcing many to undertake 70-kilometer journeys to Hyderabad for even basic treatment-a burden that, for some, proves fatal.
Mirpur Khas stands as a symbol of what happens when public health policy ignores semi-urban an...