K-P to include life insurance in Sehat Card

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister, Ali Amin Khan Gandapur, has said that the provincial government was planning to include life insurance scheme in Sehat Card program which, he termed, as a unique program of social protection.

He said that efforts are underway to improve the standards of public sector hospitals so that maximum public sector hospitals could be empaneled in Sehat Card program to make free healthcare services accessible to people everywhere in the province.

He termed health sector as one of his government's key priority sectors, and said that efforts to strengthen healthcare facilities at grass root level are underway by ensuring the efficient and effective use of available medical equipment's and human resources.

He said that hospitals are improved with the aim to ensure basic healthcare facilities to the people at local level and thereby reducing the patients load on teaching hospitals.

Gandapur remarked that steps have been taken to address gaps and loopholes in Sihat Card scheme, prevent its misuse, and enhance its efficiency, adding that these efforts have resulted in significant improvement in free treatment facilities under the scheme.

The Chief Minister shared these views while talking to a delegation of Insaf Doctors Forum who called on him at his office here the other day, and discussed with him matters related to the ongoing reforms in the health sector, improvements in service delivery in public sector.