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Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday launched the Naya Pakistan Sehat Card scheme providing the annual health insurance cover of Rs 1 million to each family across the Punjab province.

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He said three months of his mother’s illness was an ordeal from Allah for his whole family.

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He said the difficulties faced by his family for treatment of her cancer patient mother, had prompted him to think of introducing a universal

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health insurance facility for the whole population so that no one had to sell out belongings for the medical treatment of their dear one.

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“This is not a health insurance rather a health system. Now private sector will build hospitals even in villages where the basic health units remain vacant as no doctor desires to be posted there.

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Now private sector will come and poorest of the poor will get free treatment,” the prime minister remarked.

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He said starting from January 2022, the Sehat Card would be distributed across the province within three months allowing whole of the

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Punjab population to avail free medical treatment worth Rs 1 million a year at both government and private hospitals.

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“This is a landmark. This is a defining moment towards our course to make Pakistan a welfare state,” the prime minister said addressing the launching ceremony here.

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He said the health insurance cover would give the families a confidence to get treated their ailing family members which otherwise was unaffordable for many.

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He apprised the audience that despite the discouraging notions about the feasibility of Shaukat Khanum Hospital, 75% of percent patients were getting free medical treatment.

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The hospital which was built at cost of Rs 700 million now spending Rs10 billion for treating the patients.

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Similarly, he said Pakistan was to become an Islamic welfare state but the leaders so far had been awaiting the resources which was contrary to the precedence of the Madina State.

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Reiterating his vision of replicating Madina State model in Pakistan, he said the Holy prophet established the world’s

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first welfare state even without having sufficient resources. This proved that brining humanity to a state was more essential than the resources for establishing a welfare state.

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