Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched the Naya Pakistan National Sehat Card on Friday.
The premier revealed that under the programme, each family would be eligible for medical treatment up to one million rupees per year.
The PM, while hailing his party, went on to state that not everyone can take such revolutionary decisions as the PTI did, citing the example of the health card as one.
“Today, every family in Punjab will be eligible for a health card,” he stated while adding that a welfare state is one where all citizens have equal opportunity for growth and prosperity.
The PM further stated that while the welfare state model can be seen in contemporary Europe, it is not seen in Muslim countries.
He went on to add that like the State of Madina, the state accepted responsibility for society’s underprivileged segment.
He added that “we want to ensure that everyone in rural areas has access to health care, and by March 2022, all families in Punjab will have health cards.”
While taking a jibe at PML-N’s agenda of transforming Pakistan into an “Asian Tiger”, the PM said that “Asian Tiger is nothing in comparison to the State of Madinah; we are attempting to put Pakistan on a path of prosperity.”
He stated that now that the government will not spend money on building hospitals because private individuals will build them instead.
He said the government would close down the government hospitals in far-flung areas, where the doctors do not want to be posted, to save the cost.
He told the gathering that the time will prove that the initiative of Sehat Card, involving almost equal funding, would have far better outcomes than the Metro buses or Orange train.
The prime minister said that a silent revolution is in the making through the government’s initiative of housing construction loans by banks for the salaried class after the government removed all the impediments.
He said the people applied for loans worth Rs260 billion, out of which Rs110 billion worth loans have been approved and Rs34 billion disbursed already.
According to sources, the PM will also chair different meetings on administrative and political affairs, development projects and law and order.
