LAHORE: The ninth assembly of the Cupboard Standing Committee relating to common medical health insurance was held within the Civil Secretariat of Finance Division underneath the chairmanship of Well being Minister Punjab Dr Yasmin Rashid and Minister Finance Mohsin Khan Leghari.

Syed Wajid Ali Shah, Punjab Well being Initiative Administration Firm CEO Dr Ali Razaq, State Life Insurance coverage Firm’s consultant Dr Noor and officers from different related departments participated.

Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid and Finance Minister Mohsin Khan Leghari reviewed the initiatives referred to common medical health insurance in the course of the assembly. Through the assembly, an in depth evaluation of the free therapy amenities supplied to the folks of Punjab by means of Well being Card was performed.

Well being Secretary Dr Ahmad Javed Qazi knowledgeable the ministers concerning the particulars of the amenities underneath Common Well being Insurance coverage. Dr Ali Razaq introduced a report on this regard in the course of the assembly. The mechanism of funds to State Life Insurance coverage underneath Well being Insurance coverage was additionally reviewed.

Dr Yasmin Rashid mentioned that in accordance with the imaginative and prescient of Imran Khan, “We’re offering common medical health insurance to the folks of Punjab. Beneath common medical health insurance, all of the greater than 30 million households of Punjab are being supplied free therapy as much as a million rupees per 12 months. To supply higher therapy amenities for the folks of Punjab, greater than 48,000 beds have been elevated in non-public hospitals underneath common medical health insurance. It has additionally made it potential to get therapy amenities in accordance with their needs by means of non-public hospitals of Punjab.”

Common medical health insurance is the primary and distinctive undertaking within the historical past of Pakistan to be supplied to the general public within the subject of well being. For the primary time within the historical past of Pakistan, persons are getting free therapy amenities by means of the well being playing cards. Within the historical past of Pakistan, no authorities has given a package deal just like the well being facility card to the general public. Free therapy facility has been obtained by means of the cardboard. To this point, greater than 3,175,000 folks of Punjab have obtained free therapy facility price greater than Rs 69.85 billion, the minister mentioned.