1.2m treated under Sehat Card Scheme

PESHAWAR:

Under the Sehat Card Scheme of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government, over 1.2 million patients have been treated at a cumulative cost of Rs29.5 billion.

Under the scheme, free treatment facilities are available to the patients in 1,115 empaneled hospitals both in public and private sectors across the country including K-P.

Total annual cost of the program is approximately Rs.23 billion. This was revealed at a meeting held regarding Sehat Card Scheme on Thursday with CM Mahmood Khan in the chair.

Secretary Health Aamir Tareen, Special Secretary to CM Masood Younas, Focal Person to CM Muhammad Khaliq, Project Director Dr Riaz Tanoli and other officials attended the meeting.

Briefing about the details of free treatment facilities provided under the scheme, it was informed that so far 106,000 cardiac patients have been treated free of cost. Similarly, 10,8600 gynae patients and 58,000 cancer patients have been treated under the scheme.

Besides 85 cases of kidney transplant and nine cases of liver transplant have also been carried out under the scheme.

Expressing his satisfaction over the progress so far made under the Sehat Card Scheme, the chief minister has directed the officials to include free treatment facility of bone marrow transplant in the scheme adding that a formal proposal to this effect be submitted for approval as soon as possible.

He said that bone marrow transplant was an expansive treatment and out of the reach of common man and it should be included in the free treatment list to provide maximum relief to general public.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 10^th, 2022.