Why almost 50% of total population are living on or below poverty line?

The country’s official Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) states 38.8% of Pakistan’s population lives in poverty. A majority of the rural population (54.6%) lives in acute poverty while this ratio is only 9.4% in urban areas, emphasizing the need to make rural-centric economic policies.

Indicators

1. Poor Governance
2. Political Instability and Insecurity
3. Unemployment
4. In-availability of Free Basic Health Facilities
5. Household Assets
6. Household Amenities
7. Population Welfare, Water Supply and Sanitation
8. Population Boom

Life Style of Pakistani Villagers

The villagers of Pakistan are commonly live in houses made of bricks, clay or mud in joint family system. The average family consists of 8 to 10 members. One family head or household is the bread winner and other family members are dependents. In villages there is no opportunities of employment. All bread winners are farmers. Usually there is no canal and they wait hole the year for rain for cultivation of their land. Majority of farmers have no money in their pockets. Still there is a barter system is prevailing in the villages of Pakistan. A primary school's broken building is available without any teacher, chairs etc, a Basic Health Unit's broken building is available without any Doctor, Nurse, Paramedics, Medicines etc. They drink water from a pond (still water formed naturally) and live in an environment where the sanitation water still on the entrance of their houses.

In such circumstances, when a member of farmer's family suffering a disease or a pregnant lady is to be delivered a baby,  the bread winner or household borrow some money, pick up the patient and rush to Tehsil Headquarter hospital (THQ) located in urban area. Most of the patient die during the journey from village to hospital, depends upon the distance. If the patient survive during this journey, they reach the hospital where OPD treatment is free but in case of inpatient if the facility of treatment is not available the patient is referred to District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ). When the farmer reaches DHQ, after initial diagnosis the patient is admitted and the Doctor handed over a long list to attendant to conduct various Lab Investigation from private laboratory which can not be conducted from Hospital Laboratory and to purchase medicine from private pharmacy which are not available in Hospital Pharmacy for treatment of patient. 

Up-till now the farmer has consumed the borrowed money on travelling from village to THQ and from THQ to DHQ Hospitals, so he haphazardly pass a message to his home and advise to sale out the COW which is the main asset and source of income of his family/house to meet current and upcoming expenses of Lab Investigation, costly medicines and treatments etc. This cow is the only source of income of his family as they sale his milk on daily basis and meet his family's daily expenses. This farmer and his family already living on poverty line but they don't know that in this way he and his family cross the line of poverty.

After the discharge of this patient, the farmer and his family don't know how they would survive? Definitely borrow more money having no capacity to repay all personal loans and will become day by day more and more poor.

Now the need is first to stop these innocent farmers and poor people from crossing the poverty line. How? Please comment. 

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