Health cards to bring about change in the health sector: PM

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday stated that his government’s flagship Sehat Card Scheme would bring about a change in the health sector besides providing universal health coverage to people, particularly the poor and the needy.

“The universal health coverage would … protect the poor against economic fallout of contracting a disease,” he said while addressing the launching ceremony of online services of the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC).

PM Imran said even developed states did not provide full healthcare coverage to their citizens but Pakistan was moving towards full universal health coverage despite its limited resources. 

Two provinces had taken a decision in this regard, he said, adding that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had provided health cover to all its people while Punjab would be doing so by the end of the current year.