State Minister for Information & Broadcasting Farrukh Habib said on Wednesday that universal health cards (Insaf Sehat cards) was one of the best pro-grammes launched by the PTI government which would introduce a new culture of free and equal treatment to all and sundry.
Addressing the Sehat cards launching ceremony for Faisalabad division at University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF), he said that 3200,000 families and 15 million individuals would enjoy this un-precedented facility in four districts of the division including Faisalabad, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh and Chiniot.
He paid best tributes to the legendary and approach-making personality of Prime Minister Imran Khan and said that he had deep respect for the common people and was trying his best to facilitate them despite the economic crunch.
He said that he brought laurel for the country by winning historic world cricket cup. This achievement was followed by the establishment of Cancer Hospital – Shaukat Khanum – and now this flagship project of health facility had been inaugurated.
He said that two mil-lion people had so far been treatment under the pro-gramme across the country including 0.9 million people from Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP), 0.7 mil-lion people from Punjab and 0.4 million individuals from Islamabad and Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK). He further said that insurance companies had so far paid claims of Rs 46 billion under the scheme. He said that Imran Khan was committed to serve the masses particularly to the people of neglected seg-ments.
He criticized the past rulers and said that they failed to provide this most fundamental facility to the masses as they were in the habit of proceed-ing abroad for their treatment. He said that Imran Khan had to “live and die” in this country.
Hence his attachment with the people was just natural. He said that 900 hospitals in Pakistan would extend medical facility to 40 million families while 180 million individuals would enjoy the free medical cover.
He said the PTI government had taken four major steps including 10 billion tree tsunami programme which was appreciated at the global level. He said the second major project was Ehsaas programme for which Rs 260 billion had been earmarked to provide much-needed succor and relief to 70 million indi-viduals.
