• Duty-free import of medical equipment on the cards
• Imran reaffirms pledge to expeditiously complete CPEC projects
• Fawad reappointed as information minister
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said his government’s flagship Sehat Card Scheme would bring about a revolution in the health sector besides providing universal health coverage to people, particularly the poor and the needy.
“The universal health coverage would … protect the poor against economic fallout of contracting a disease,” he said while addressing the launching ceremony of online services of the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC).
The prime minister said even developed states did not provide full healthcare coverage to their citizens but Pakistan was moving towards full universal health coverage despite its limited resources.
Lahore
January 12, 2021
LAHORE:Minister for Industries and Trade Mian Aslam Iqbal has regretted that the ruling elite enjoyed the fruits of development in the past but the incumbent government has initiated public-friendly initiatives like Ehsas Programme, Kamyab Jawan Programme, Sehat Card Scheme, shelter homes and almonries for the masses.
According to a handout issued here, the minister expressed these views while talking to the party workers at his office here on Monday.
The minister said that the Punjab Rozgar Programme is the mega initiative of providing soft loans for starting a small scale business and the needy could get loans of different categories from one lakh rupees to 10 million. An increase in exports and economic stability are major macroeconomic achievements of the PTI, he said. It is, however, regrettable that the steady economic recovery and holistic industrialisation have panicked the opposition and the PDM leadership is worried about its bleak political fut
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan said here on Friday the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had rejected the narrative of the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement .He was talking to.