Grant of Rs. 7 billion released for major health facility:

By web desk On Oct 9, 2023

Independent Report

QUETTA: The caretaker Provincial Minister for Health, Dr. Amir Muhammad Khan Jogezai has announced that Health Cards Programme is going to be effective from October 25, 2023 in the province, and those having Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) would be able to get the medical treatment of worth Rs. 1.2 million in as many as 1200 hospitals all over the country.
What’s important is that the people would have no need to go anywhere for the Health Cards, as those holding their CNICs would be considered as the Health Cards.
The funds of Rs. 7 billion have been released for the Health Card Programme in the province.
This was announced by the Minister Health while speaking on occasion of his visit to the District Headquarter Hospital Duki on Monday morning.
Also present on the occasion were Deputy Commissioner Duki, Captain (Retd) Fayyaz Ali, District Health Officer, Dr. Rafiq Baloch, Medical Superintendent of DHQ Hospital, Dr. Johar Khan Shadozai, besides other concerned officials.
The Minister Health visited the casualty department, child ward, DHO office and other sections and inspected the facilities being extended to the patients there.
He was also briefed about the overall functioning of the DHQ Hospital and the issues being faced by it due to lack of medicines and other resources.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Jogezai mentioned that the caretaker government has done historic works during short span of three weeks. The major work done is included issuance of Health Cards to some 2.2 million families in the province, he maintained.
He particularly mentioned that the Health Card holders can get medical treatment facilities upto Rs. 1 million in other provinces, while in Balochistan, this limit has been increased to Rs. 1.2 million.
Referring the initiatives taken by the interim government in health sector, the Minister Health said that more facilities have been provided in the Trauma center Quetta while non-functional dialysis unit of the DHQ Hospital Loralai has been made operation after two years. In addition to this, second Operation Theatre has also been made functional in the Loralai Hospital, he maintained.