A bar graph race chart also shows a sudden increase in Sindh's capacity as the gap has widened since 2015, Punjab is especially lagging, while KP and Balochistan are inching back towards their 2008 values 5/7
Perhaps this was the reason why Sindh seemed better prepared to deal with #COVID_19 when compared with other provinces. This final graph is from WHO's report from 5th April 2020, it shows the stark differences in the capacity of the various provinces in dealing with Corona 6/7
Data source for hospital beds is PBS http://www.pbs.gov.pk/content/hospitalsdispensaries-and-beds-province for population figures I used the 1998 population as base and used the annual census growth rate between 1998-2017 to predict populations for each year till 2018. 7/7
Just to add one more things. All graphs except for the WHO graph were made using https://flourish.studio . The WHO graph was copy pasted from their Situation Report for April 5, 2020.
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