Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said that the New Pakistan National Health Card Program has been launched in the Faisalabad division by the government to extend free treatment facilities through a network of 90 best hospitals.
While addressing the launching ceremony on Wednesday, he said that the PTI government has the honour of working the hardest in the health sector in the history of Pakistan while Punjab is an ideal province in terms of health facilities. Usman Buzdar said that after the launch in Faisalabad, the sixth division of Punjab, 73% of the population has, now, access to National Health Card and by March, 100% of the people of Punjab will have access to free treatment through New Pakistan National Health Card, he added.
While giving a detail of the healthcare initiatives of the provincial government, he said the Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology was being upgraded at a cost of Rs.58 crores. INP
