Govt strives to implement effective health facilities: Usman Buzdar
He maintained that in urban areas, municipal committees would serve the people.
ATTOCK (Dunya News) – Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar said on Sunday that the provincial government has been striving to provide best health facilities to the masses.
Addressing Sehat Insaf Card distribution ceremony in Attock, he said 111,000 families of Attock district would be able to avail benefits from this initiative.
He said a cardholder could get medical treatment of various diseases free-of-cost up to over Rs700,000 through the card at designated private and government hospitals.
He said about 37 million families throughout Punjab would be able to get benefits from the initiative, which has so far been launched in 18 districts of the province.
He said a 200-bed mother and child hospital and nursing college will be established in Attock and these projects have been included in the next budget of the province.
“District and tehsil level hospitals will be upgraded with maximum health facilities to serve people of the area,” he said, adding that new land record centers will be established in Attock and development projects worth Rs4 billion for the district are also on the cards.
The chief minister said Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology will be converted into a state-of-the-art research center for heart related diseases.
Buzdar said that the government believes in equal development of all areas of Punjab and the government is set to introduce a new local bodies system to resolve core issues of the general public at their door steps.
He said local bodies across Punjab have dissolved and administrators appointed to pave way for the new system.
He stated 22,000 village councils will be established, across Punjab, under the new system and Rs40 billion will be disbursed through them.
He maintained that in urban areas, municipal committees would serve the people.
Earlier, speaking on the occasion Prime Minister’s Advisor on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said the government has been striving to provide best health facilities to the people.
