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Women in Pakistan Face Healthcare Barriers Due to Lack of Documentation and Gender Issues

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Islamabad/New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) More than poverty, lack of proper documents, fear, marginalisation, and gender are holding women in Pakistan away from accessing healthcare, according to a media report.Writing in Dawn, Tahera Hasan, a lawyer and founder-CEO of Imkaan Welfare Organisation, shares that women in Pakistan are more likely than men to lack documentation. They are also more dependent on male relatives to obtain or even present it.“The absence of identity documents interacts with re…