Facility of Sehat Insaf Card expands countrywide: Kiani

ISLAMABAD: Health Minister Aamir Mehmood Kiani said the facility of Sehat Insaf Card has been expanded countrywide, Radio Pakistan reported.

Speaking during a visit to a Call Center of Sehat Sahulat Program in Islamabad on Tuesday, the minister said 2.2 million families have so far received Sehat Insaf Card to receive free medical services up to seven hundred and twenty thousand rupees.

Thirty million more people will get their health cards this year, Kiani added.

The minister also talked to the patients, who have benefited from Sehat Sahulat Program, through live phone calls.

Under the Sehat Insaf Cards, the citizens will be able to get treatment of AIDS and all kinds of cancers. The meeting said it was for the first time that such a step was taken for welfare of citizens.

The patient will be assisted financially as stipulated in the health card scheme.

A patient will also be given Rs 1000 each under veterinary transportation. An amount of Rs 10,000 will be given to a patient for shroud and burial.

Prime Minister Imran Khan launched the first phase of the countrywide Sehat Insaf Card scheme on Feb 4 to provide free medical treatment to approximately 80 million people.