PM Health Programme comes to Abbottabad

Saira Afzal Tarar says 30,521 families get health cards for free treatment from panel of hospitals

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar on Monday launched Prime Minister’s National Health Programme in Abbottabad by distributing health cards among enrolled families below the poverty line in a ceremony in Abbottabad.

Deputy Speaker National Assembly Murtaza Javed Abbasi, public representatives and notables of the district were also present on the occasion.

Addressing the ceremony Tarar said under the programme 30,521 families will be provided health cards for free treatment from panel of public and private sector hospitals.

Under the direction of the PM the programme is being expanded to the entire country in a phased manner. She highlighted that this was the largest health initiative providing free services to the poorest of the poor for the very first time.

“We believe in delivering to the masses and our work speaks for itself,” she said.

“Under the programme, people, who cannot afford, will be provided expensive procedures and operations free of cost. We do not believe in hollow slogans and mere campaigning on social media,” the state minister said.

Today the situation in Pakistan is much better then when people voted PML-N to power in 2013, she maintained. There is a sea change in the security situation; the energy crisis is being resolved with zero industrial load-shedding and domestic load-shedding on its way out.

Massive improvement has been seen in macroeconomic stability.

CPEC project has been launched and Pakistan is being seen as a top destination for investment. She vowed to continue to serve the masses and said nothing will stop their march towards progress and changing the destiny of people of the country.

Deputy Speaker National Assembly Murtaza Javed Abbasi also spoke on the occasion and thanked PM and state minister on behalf of the people of Abbottabad for launching a program that would cater to the critical health needs of the poor.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 20^th, 2017.