You are welcome.
About other issues:
Actually many doctors specially those in house jobs and FCPS are indeed working for free. The rest just get a pitty and shameful amount somewhere between 200 to 300 dollars a month, without any insurance etc. This is the truth and there should be no denying. I guess you have confused the consultant with the rest of the doctors. Consultant is the senior doctor who has made his/her name. He/she just visits the hospital for a 2-3 hours but then the hospital is being run by the junior doctors. There is one consultant for every 15-20 physicians. I personally do not even blame the consultant either. He/She has worked hard and deserve to get what is due. Currently the fee of a consultant in Pakistan is 800 or equal to just 9 dollars. The same consultant when abroad gets over 300 dollars. So we can not expect our consultants to work for free. Do soldiers, police, train drivers, teachers etc work for free? No. That is the answer. Besides in Pakistan 95% of patients use government hospitals where doctors are unpaid/poorly paid because they can not afford shiny private hospitals made for rich people.
But if you want a free and good quality health care for all rich or poor, you have to have a good and robust health ministry with a healthy budget. Currently Pakistani government spends less than 0.4% of GDP on health in nominal terms. United States spends 16% (their defense budget is at just 4% despite their military being the largest and in war). If you want to see people go to a doctor without paying and get free medicine and free hospital then yeah why not tell your health minister to increase the budget to 8% of GDP that is 20 times now. That would be enough to pay respectable salaries to doctors and nurses, buy meds and equipment for hospitals and such. But wait a minute. There is a problem. There is no more a health ministry in Pakistan. Just a few months ago, during downsizing of the cabinet they finished off the health ministry at federal level despite the fact that all nations in the world administer it centrally planned since that is how it should be. Health is like defense. You can not have defense ministry for every province. But since the health ministry in Pakistan was the weakest and poorest ministry, it was easy to finish it off quietly which they did. No noises. After all people here blame the doctors and not their government for health care. As if doctors do not need to eat or they cure by magic which does not require meds and equipment. Right now the situation is hopeless, my friend. A country without a health ministry should not expect anything more than this. Simply said, it is not the doctors fault. It is the governments. Health is a governance issue and not a professional one. Last year the allocated budget for health research in Pakistan was 20 laks. That is right 2 million rupees. In western countries even private pharma companies pay more than that to their doormen per month.
Finally if you want to have good health care then you need something like this card. Apply for it before it is too late. Many doctors themselves are leaving and applying for such cards for all the reasons said above:
Health Card
