“At least 20 million people in Pakistan have disabilities, making that 10 percent of the country’s population,”.
My question is, where are all these people going?
Because based on my experience in Karachi. Every single day I see.
One handed beggars.
Stunted men riding special tricycles with a bowls to collect money from pedestrians.
Children with deformed ankles dragging themselves from signal light to signal light.
An enormous amount of beggars characterized with hermaphroditism, a condition where one has both male and female reproductive organisms.
People with dwarfism (A genetic disorder of bone growth, the most common cause of disproportionately short limbs) if not begging at signals, then placed as restaurant doormen.
Blind men standing at the entrances of mosques.
I personally feel that the that the number of disabled on the streets is disproportionately large.
Information from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (2012-2013) shows that only 18 percent of our population is given necessary immediate breastfeeding, and only 38% of infants receive exclusive breastfeeding.
Insecurity of food is widespread, it is prevalent in approximately 40-50% of families in certain provinces, especially in Balochistan, Sindh, South Punjab and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata.
We’ll look more into this matter in the coming blogs. What do you think? Think Imran Khan’s talk on malnutrition in children was what our nation needed all along?
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