‘Free healthcare top priority of government’

Awan says Insaf cards will ensure free treatment, medicines for the poor

LAHORE:

Provision of free health facilities to the people is the government’s top priority, Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Sunday, adding that the Insaf Medicine Card would enable people suffering from various diseases, including hepatitis, AIDS and tuberculosis, to avail free treatment and medicines.

The special assistant expressed these views while addressing a press conference following her visit to a shelter home and Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Daska.

Dr Awan said that under the leadership of Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar all departments were taking necessary measures to protect the rights of the people of the province.

“The healthcare model of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is being replicated in Punjab and the chief minister is taking all possible steps to provide quality health services in urban as well as rural areas of the province,” she highlighted.

The special assistant said the government was fully aware of the problems faced by the poor and therefore the fruit and vegetable markets would be digitalised soon to end profiteering.

“Middlemen will also be brought under the ambit of law. The brokers and traders have a right to earn legitimate profit but those who exploit the people will be held accountable,” she warned.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, January 4^th, 2021.