60,000 Sehat cards distributed in Multan

MULTAN: As many as 60,000 Sehat Insaf cards have been distributed across the district so far.

This was disclosed by provincial head Sehat Insaf cards Muhammad Imran while briefing Deputy Commissioner Amir Khattak on Thursday.

He said over 500 people availed medical treatment facility and best private hospitals were selected for good health facilities.

He said a total of 321,874 Sehat Insaf cards would be distributed in the district, adding that 10 centres each in tehsils, city, Saddar and five each in Shujabad and Jalalpur were established for disbursing the cards. Deputy Commissioner Aamer Khattak directed to expedite the cards distribution process.

He alleged that BISP cards were issued to rich people in past and directed officials concerned to cancel BISP cards of such people.

He directed the departments concerned to conduct the national Khushali survey on merit to identify deserving people qualifying for Sehat Insaf cards.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 13^th, 2019.