Punjab CM launches Sehat Insaf Card programme in Dera Ghazi Khan
Punjab CM vowed that the entire Punjab will make significant progress.
DERA GHAZI KHAN (Dunya News) - Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Saturday launched the Sehat Insaf Card programme in Dera Ghazi Khan.
Addressing the ceremony, Punjab CM asserted that only practical steps will be taken instead of a show off.
He maintained that problems will be addressed in under developed areas. Punjab CM vowed that the entire Punjab will make significant progress.
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday launched the Sehat Insaf Card scheme in Punjab to provide quality health services to people who can’t afford them.
The Prime Minister also distributed health cards among some of the deserving families of district Rajanpur. He said Rajanpur is the most backward area of Pakistan and his government is going to start health cards distribution to facilitate people of this area.
On February 4, Prime Minister Imran Khan at a ceremony in Islamabad launched the first phase of the countrywide Sehat Insaf Card scheme to provide free medical treatment to approximately 80 million people. Later, he launched the scheme for the tribal districts at a ceremony in Peshawar.
SEHAT INSAF CARD
Sources informed that in the first phase cards would be issued to those persons whose monthly salary is below Rs 15,000. Under the scheme households below the poverty line will receive free medical treatment worth Rs720,000 in private or state-owned hospitals.
Sources further informed that 30.5 million people would be provided Sehat Insaf Card in Punjab during the current year.
The card, which falls under the PTI’s Sehat Sahulat Programme, was part of a health insurance scheme first launched by the party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2016.
