KPK Extends Sehat Card Programme to Karachi & Lahore

PESHAWAR, Jan 28 (APP): The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Thursday included 26 hospitals of Karachi and Lahore on the panel of its health insurance scheme of Sehat Card Plus that has been launched for all residents of the province.

Under the scheme the residents of the province would get free medical facilities in all major public sector and private sector hospitals. According to the decision of the government now four hospitals of Karachi and 22 hospitals of Lahore would also provide free medical facilities to the residents of the province.

According to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Health and Finance, Taimur Saleem Jhagra, all those permanent residents of KPK that are living in Karachi and Lahore could not avail free medical facility by merely showing their National Identity Cards (NICs). These hospitals are equipped with the best medical facilities. He said that the provincial government is including more hospitals on the panel of Sehat Card Plus across the country and in the next few days more good hospitals would be included.

The four hospitals of Karachi include Dow Medical University Hospital, Al-Khidmat Farida Yaqub Hospital, and Karachi Institute of Radio-Therapy and Nuclear Medicine.

Hospitals of Lahore on the panel include: