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In line with the vision of Prime Minister, Government of Punjab has also taken its firm stand to implement Sehat Sahulat Program in its all
districts.To honor the commitment made by Prime Minister, nowadays on 6th February 2019 and in the presence of Federal Minister for National
Health Services, Aamer Mehmood Kiani, Chief Executive Officer of Punjab Health Initiative Management Company, Zaheer Abbas Malik, on behalf
of Government of Punjab, signed the contract to implement Sehat Sahulat Program in all districts of Punjab.On this occasion, Federal
Minister briefed that this scheme shall bring robust improvement in treatment and access to quality health care services to poorest and
under privileged marginalized population of Pakistan.In the end he thanked all the participants of the ceremony for witnessing this
important landmark incidence and guaranteed that Ministry, under his supervision, shall work day and night to guarantee the success of this
program in providing benefits to the people of Pakistan.Through this Social Health Protection initiative poor families shall be supplyd with
free of cost health insurance to secure indoor health care services worth Rs: 720,000/- from empanelled hospitals.Through this program,
Government of Punjab shall supply &Sehat Insaf Cards& to around 6 million families of Punjab who are living below international poverty line
of US $ 2 per day.The indoor health care services which are available from Sehat Insaf Card includes open heart surgeries, insertion of
stents, management of cancer, neurosurgical procures, burn management, accident management, dialysis, intensive care management, deliveries,
C section and other medical / surgical procedures.The program shall also supply Rs: 1,000 transportation cost to its beneficiaries at the
time of their discharge from hospital.There is provision of burial support as Rs: 10,000 per death (if occur in hospital)
There is facility of Inter Provincial / Inter District Portability for availing free of cost services from any empanelled hospital across
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