LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said that the provincial government has decided to give universal health coverage cards to every citizen of the province by December 2021.
He was chairing a meeting about the health department at his office during which he was also briefed about departmental performance, universal health coverage program and amendments in autonomous medical institutions act.
Addressing the meeting, Usman Buzdar said that provision universal health coverage cards to every citizen was a revolutionary step of the PTI government as such a wonderful program has not been introduced by any previous government.
He gave in-principle approval to necessary amendments in the autonomous medical institutions act to streamline the appointment of principals and medical superintendents of medical institutions and to deal with other matters. Effective monitoring will improve performance along with streamlining the appointment of work charge employees.
The chief minister maintained the universal health coverage programme will provide free quality healthcare facilities and announced to further extend the scope of mother and child hospitals to Rajanpur, Layyah, Attock and Sialkot. The PTI government was establishing modern hospitals in backward areas to provide quality healthcare to the locals at their doorsteps as the past governments ignored far-flung areas, he continued.
Provincial ministers Raja Basharat, Dr Yasmeen Rashid, health secretaries and others attended the meeting.
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