Developing paediatric emergency medicine—an opinion from a developing country tertiary care center

Child health in Pakistan is amongst the most important national issues that need serious attention. The major reasons behind growing diseases in children may be scanty federal and provincial budget on health services, low income per capita, reduced literacy rate near to 17%, and lack of skilled birth attendants, widespread diseases and non-existent emergency child health services in government run district and rural hospitals as well as in private hospitals.