The cost of poliomyelitis: Lack of cost of illness studies on poliomyelitis rehabilitation in Pakistan
182 Archives of Pharmacy Practice Vol. 7 Issue 4 Oct Dec 2016 restore them to a functional life. Usually, LT results in excellent shortand medium term outcomes although rarely long term. Those patients are lucky who come walking back through the doors of the Intensive Care Unit to offer thanks to doctors and their near and dear ones. For others with permanently failing organ systems, life sustaining interventions do not work out while new complications keep arising, and recovery looks impossible. Patients often think of the irony, what kind of living is this? Perhaps need to be tolerated only if recovery being the final reward. Patients need to undergo LT provided they find a suitable donor match in time and only if they are ready to take on the added cost of follow up care. For patients of age <40 LT is a life saving procedure. However, for the underprivileged looking at the current cost of procedure and treatment, LT looks unaffordable.