Health among govt’s top priorities: Buzdar
Says Sehat Cards are meant to help poor segment of society
A woman receives a Sehat Card during a ceremony held at the main auditorium of the Faisalabad Medical University on Friday. PHOTO: APP
FAISALABAD:
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said on Friday all available resources were being utilised to provide basic facilities to people, besides improving the living standard of the deprived segment of society.
He expressed these views while addressing a ceremony held to distribute Sehat Insaf Card at the main auditorium of Faisalabad Medical University on Friday.
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The chief minister lauded the launching of Sehat Insaf Card scheme and said the people of Faisalabad and Chiniot districts would be facilitated like other districts of the province.
"Sehat Insaf Card has been specially designed for deserving segments of society who lack financial resources for medical treatment. Now they will be able of getting treatment costing up to Rs720,000 per year," he said.
As many as 411,000 families, about 22% of the total population in Faisalabad and another 88,000 families making 23% of the population of district Chiniot will benefit from health cards, the CM said.
The cardholder would be able of getting treatment from any panel hospital in every city of the province. The government would also pay transport fare required for shifting the patient to the hospital and back home from the hospital, he said.
He said Sehat Cards were being distributed among seven million needy families in Punjab province and about 30.5 million people belonging to these families would avail facilities associated with this card.
Mianwali to get 200-bed mother and child hospital
The CM, while highlighting some other development programmes initiated in Faisalabad district, said that eastern west water treatment plant was being set up at a cost of Rs152 billion.
He added that under annual development programme 500 development programmes have been initiated across Punjab.
Provincial ministers Chaudhry Zaheeruddin, Hafiz Mumtaz Ahmed, Ajmal Cheema and other officials were also present on the occasion.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 3rd, 2019.
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said on Friday all available resources were being utilised to provide basic facilities to people, besides improving the living standard of the deprived segment of society.
He expressed these views while addressing a ceremony held to distribute Sehat Insaf Card at the main auditorium of Faisalabad Medical University on Friday.
'Pakistan has 165,000 HIV/AIDS patients, less than 15% registered'
The chief minister lauded the launching of Sehat Insaf Card scheme and said the people of Faisalabad and Chiniot districts would be facilitated like other districts of the province.
"Sehat Insaf Card has been specially designed for deserving segments of society who lack financial resources for medical treatment. Now they will be able of getting treatment costing up to Rs720,000 per year," he said.
As many as 411,000 families, about 22% of the total population in Faisalabad and another 88,000 families making 23% of the population of district Chiniot will benefit from health cards, the CM said.
The cardholder would be able of getting treatment from any panel hospital in every city of the province. The government would also pay transport fare required for shifting the patient to the hospital and back home from the hospital, he said.
He said Sehat Cards were being distributed among seven million needy families in Punjab province and about 30.5 million people belonging to these families would avail facilities associated with this card.
Mianwali to get 200-bed mother and child hospital
The CM, while highlighting some other development programmes initiated in Faisalabad district, said that eastern west water treatment plant was being set up at a cost of Rs152 billion.
He added that under annual development programme 500 development programmes have been initiated across Punjab.
Provincial ministers Chaudhry Zaheeruddin, Hafiz Mumtaz Ahmed, Ajmal Cheema and other officials were also present on the occasion.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 3rd, 2019.