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Enabling the disabled: Call for intercepting disability surge in Pakistan
Muscular dystrophies have always been marginalized culturally and socially, particularly in underdeveloped and developing countries. Pakistan is facing significant dearth of “appropriately” trained neurologists and neuromuscular pathologists. A careful and methodical link between clinical, pathologi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848386/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29564251 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_50_17 |
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author | Naseem, Nadia Jawad, Usman |
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description | Muscular dystrophies have always been marginalized culturally and socially, particularly in underdeveloped and developing countries. Pakistan is facing significant dearth of “appropriately” trained neurologists and neuromuscular pathologists. A careful and methodical link between clinical, pathological and molecular analysis must be established before making a diagnosis in such cases. Increased collaboration between local and international neurology societies may add value to collaborative neuromuscular research and education in Pakistan, both in community and health sectors. These goals are all achievable but require persistence, dedicated workforce, and positive efforts to meet them. |
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spelling | pubmed-58483862018-03-21 Enabling the disabled: Call for intercepting disability surge in Pakistan Naseem, Nadia Jawad, Usman J Family Med Prim Care Commentary Muscular dystrophies have always been marginalized culturally and socially, particularly in underdeveloped and developing countries. Pakistan is facing significant dearth of “appropriately” trained neurologists and neuromuscular pathologists. A careful and methodical link between clinical, pathological and molecular analysis must be established before making a diagnosis in such cases. Increased collaboration between local and international neurology societies may add value to collaborative neuromuscular research and education in Pakistan, both in community and health sectors. These goals are all achievable but require persistence, dedicated workforce, and positive efforts to meet them. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5848386/ /pubmed/29564251 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_50_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Naseem, Nadia Jawad, Usman Enabling the disabled: Call for intercepting disability surge in Pakistan |
title | Enabling the disabled: Call for intercepting disability surge in Pakistan |
title_full | Enabling the disabled: Call for intercepting disability surge in Pakistan |
title_fullStr | Enabling the disabled: Call for intercepting disability surge in Pakistan |
title_full_unstemmed | Enabling the disabled: Call for intercepting disability surge in Pakistan |
title_short | Enabling the disabled: Call for intercepting disability surge in Pakistan |
title_sort | enabling the disabled: call for intercepting disability surge in pakistan |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848386/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29564251 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_50_17 |
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