Under the Prime Minister's vision of a welfare state and Universal Health Programme, like Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, every family of Punjab will be provided Naya Pakistan Sehat Card to get free medical facilities.
KP set to provide free healthcare to 14m more people
Peshawar
December 29, 2020
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is set to provide free healthcare services to 14 million people under the Sehat Sahulat Programme from the 1st January 2021.
Health Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra, who is also holding the portfolio of finance, told The News from January 1, the next year, the Universal Health Insurance Programme would be extended to six more districts of the province.
He said the initiation of the free medical treatment in Hazara Division has collectively increased admissions in public sector hospitals by 153 per cent.The minister said that Sehat Sahulat Card is a revolutionary project of the KP government under which poor and middle-class of the society would receive a free medical treatment facility up to Rs1 million annually.