ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved a summary seeking to provide Qaumi Sehat Cards to the citizens of Islamabad.
In a statement by Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar on Friday said, “Prime Minister Imran Khan’s big decision for all citizens of Islamabad approved to bring health facility cards system.”
“Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was the first province to announce the facility and the system will be extended to Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Islamabad,” he tweeted.
اسلام آباد کے تمام شہریوں کے لئے وزیر اعظم عمران خان کا بڑا فیصلہ….. تمام اسلام آباد کے مقیم شہریوں کے لئے صحت سہولت کارڈ کا نطام لانے کی منظوری دے دی. خیبر پختون خواہ پہلا صوبہ تھا جس نے اس سہولت کا اعلان کیا اور پنجاب، گلگت بلتستان اور اسلام آباد میں بھی یہ نظام نافذ ہو گا
— Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) April 2, 2021
On the other hand, the Ministry of National Health Service (NHS) said that only citizens with a permanent address of Islamabad mentioned in their national identity cards can get the facility.
Qaumi Sehat Cards is a health treatment facility through which each family can get cashless indoor healthcare services up to Rs720,000 in a year. So far, the government has issued health cards to seven million deserving families in districts of Punjab, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, tribal areas, and Tharparkar.
KP is the only province where the entire population of over or around eight million families has been given the Sehat Sahulat Programme facility.
PM Imran Khan said that the decision taken by KP government to provide health cards was derived from the first principle. He added that every family will have Rs1 million as a health cover and there will no budgetary concerns.
“There will be surety in a household that if someone falls sick he will have a health card and can get treatment in any hospital, be it government or private,” said the prime minister.
With the KP’s new Sehat Card Plus programme, all 40 million domicile holders regardless of where they live in Pakistan will receive health insurance worth Rs1 million per year.
PM Khan said that the federal government will also provide houses on easy installments under the Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme, and is introducing an academic system that will benefit the children of a common man.
