Staff Reporter
Abbottabad
The Provincial Government has formally launched Health Card Plus in Zone Two of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa making families avail health insurance up to 1 million a year in designated hospitals of the country. Provincial Minister for Labor and Culture Shaukat Yousafzai formally inaugurated programme at a ceremony held in the Besham area of district Shangla. Besides Deputy Commissioner Shangla Hamid-ur-Rehman political elders of the area attended the event. “The Health Card Plus initiative will provide free healthcare to more than 40 million people across the province and 0.7 million people in Shangla alone. Everyone will be able to get free treatment without any discrimination”, Yousafzai.
Yousafzai said that leaders in the previous governments have pushed the country under debt, whereas, Prime Minister Imran Khan is taking the economy of the country in the right direction. The country is on the path of development and prosperity, he said. Minister Labour and Culture said that far flung districts like Shangla are rapidly progressing in development. A new era of development has begun and change is now visible everywhere, added the Minister. He said that under the leadership of Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, development projects were being implemented in every corner of the province.
