Prime Minister Imran Khan to launch Sehat Sahulat Programme for AJK

Prime Minister Imran Khan to launch Sehat Sahulat Programme for AJK – Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

He will formally launch it during a ceremony in Islamabad today (Friday).

Prime Minister Imran Khan to launch

The programme envisages universal health coverage for the people of the territory.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Azad Jammu and Kashmir Raja Farooq Haider will also attend the event.

Sehat Sahulat Program has come one of the leading social health protection programs of the government.

It aims to provide a path to reach Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan.

The program is providing free of cost financial health protection to poor and marginalized families to access quality indoor healthcare services from empanelled healthcare facilities or hospitals.

Notably,the Sehat Sahulat Program made each enrolled family entitled Sehat Card.

Through that the family can access services for high cost diseases.

Heart surgeries, cancer, dialysis, neuro-surgical procedures, deliveries, C sections all medical and surgical procedures also included. That requires admission in health centres (hopsitals).

Currently, the Sehat Sahulat Program remains in the process of implementation in more than ninety districts of Pakistan.

Besides, it is providing free of cost healthcare services to more than nine million enrolled families.

However, some quarters also complain lack of access to such facilities.

GTV