LAHORE : Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar has thanked Allah Almighty for serving the people through the New Pakistan National Health Card. PM Imran Khan’s dream of providing the best healthcare facilities to the people has been realized through this scheme. The facility has been introduced in the Rawalpindi Division today to accommodate about three million families to avail the free treatment of one million rupees per annum through 56 hospitals on the panel.
He was addressing the launch ceremony of the New Pakistan National Health Card at the PM Office in Islamabad on Wednesday. CM Usman Buzdar said the Punjab government would spend Rs400 billion on Universal Health Insurance Program; and by the end of March, every family in Punjab would have access to free treatment through New Pakistan National Health Card. 110 million people of 36 districts of Punjab will benefit from this historic program, he added. The CM said the Punjab government has paid special attention to the improvement of the health sector. Improving the quality of health care facilities is our top priority, he highlighted. The health team has worked hard and Punjab will be developed as a model province in terms of health, he maintained. 23 new hospitals are being built in Punjab along with the upgradation of health facilities. Compared to the previous government, the incumbent government has increased the budget of the health sector 200 times, he noted. He said that 8 mother and child hospitals are being set up in remote areas of Punjab. In three and a half years, 158 hospitals have been upgraded; 78 new health facilities have been built and the day is not far when PM Imran Khan’s vision of extending the best health facilities to the hoi polloi would be fulfilled, he added. The whole of Pakistan, including Punjab province, would benefit from the facility of the New Pakistan National Health Card because people have the right to access quality healthcare facilities. This is also the manifesto of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the CM concluded.
