What ails the Pakistani medical institutions?

Despite the fact that there is no dearth of talent in Pakistan, our contributions to medical literature and research is very negligible as compared to other Muslim countries like Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey and even Saudi Arabia. Even our neighboring countries like India and Bangladesh have made tremendous progress during the last two decades but our performance in this field leaves much to be desired. If a critical analysis is made, it will reveal that politicizing of the medial institutions, disregard for merit while making appointments for the heads of various institutions, extensions in service to those with close contact with corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, lack of any faculty development programme, too much political interference in running and managing the medial institutions in the public sector are some of the reasons for this sad state of affairs. As regards the private sector, they are in business, their first priority is to make money hence most of the institutions in the private sector are least interested in research.