Sehat Card to be launched in NMD

The federal government has decided to transfer the funds of Sehat Saholat Program for the people of newly merged tribal districts to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government.

After the decision, the residents of these districts will be issued Sehat Card Plus.

In a statement Health Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan approved the transfers of funds and after him it was approved by Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen too.

“The residents of the tribal districts now will be able to avail the Sehat Card facility like the rest of the province,” he said, adding that under the Sehat Card a person can avail free medical treatment worth Rs1 million per year.

“PM Imran Khan has already signed the summary in this regard and the federal minister has also shown his willingness to transfer the funds,” he added, saying that the Sehat Card facility will be available from the month of April from Bajaur to Waziristan.

“The federal finance minister is a man who wants to transfer the powers from federation to the provinces,” he said.

Jhagra said that under the Sehat Card the residents of these districts will be able to get free medical treatment including liver and kidney transplant at the best public and private hospitals of the country.

“Even the Covid-19 treatment is covered by the Sehat Card,” he said.

“The transfer of these funds was a longstanding demand of the K-P government and this promise has finally been fulfilled by the current provincial government,” he said.

Nutrition Support Committee

Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) Peshawar has established a nutrition support committee which has been tasked with publishing food guidelines for cancer, diabetes, heart patients and for patients suffering from gastric, kidney and other diseases.

Gastroenterologist Dr Kamran Hassan will head the committee and the general secretary of the committee will be Bushra Khalil who is the head of the Nutrition Department.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 31^st, 2022.