PESHAWAR: Greater than 180,000 residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have availed free remedy companies in hospitals in Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Islamabad on Sehat Card Plus, in response to paperwork.
Since launch of the free well being initiative in 2016, a complete of two.715 million individuals have undergone free remedy and provincial authorities has spent Rs81 billion for the aim. Amongst them, 181,819 sufferers obtained medical companies in several hospitals in Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Islamabad at a value of Rs6.741 billion.
These sufferers are residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa however they dwell in different cities in reference to their jobs.
Underneath the programme, 10.2 million households comprising 33.2 million individuals of the province are entitled to hunt cashless remedy wherever within the nation, in response to offi cials. A household is allowed to get free remedy companies as much as Rs1 million yearly.
Provincial govt has spent Rs81 billion on the programme
There are greater than 700 empanelled hospitals the place the individuals possessing the nationwide identification card of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa can search free remedy companies. Of the empanelled hospitals, 118 are positioned within the province and the remaining are in different provinces and Islamabad.
Offi cials stated that initially of the programme, sufferers obtained companies solely contained in the province however the initiative turned widespread and the residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa working in different components of the nation began coming again to the province to avail free well being companies.
To services the individuals of their cities of labor, the provincial authorities empanelled hospitals in different provinces, they stated.
Most of these getting free remedy exterior the province completely lived in different provinces however had been eligible as they had been residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The State Life Insurance coverage Company (SLIC), the executor of Sehat Card Plus (SCP) programme, has been affi liating sufferers all through Pakistan. The insurer has been itemizing hospitals in these areas wherever they’re wanted.
Officers stated that empanelment of hospitals exterior the province was serving to sufferers in two methods as a result of they obtained free remedy companies within the cities of labor and the sufferers and their households didn’t require coming to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which saved their time and cash.
Additionally, sufferers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been looking for free medical companies exterior the province that aren’t out there in native hospitals.
Officers stated that 64 individuals had undergone liver transplants in Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore as the power was not out there in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They stated that value of a single process was Rs5 million.
They added many sufferers underwent renal transplants exterior the province.
They stated that the bills incurred on one case had been Rs1.4 million. Of the overall of 159 renal transplants performed up to now, 50 have been carried out by surgeons in different cities, primarily in Islamabad.
Officers stated that 54 per cent of the general benefi ciaries of the programme had been girls and the typical value of per affected person was Rs25, 800 however most quantity was consumed on cardiology sufferers, adopted by normal surgical procedure, gynaecology, medical, neurosurgery, oncology, orthopaedic and urology and so on.
They stated that authorities introduced Rs37 billion for SCP, which included Rs28 billion for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Rs9 billion for the residents of merged districts.
A minimum of 10 sufferers got here from overseas to their native districts totally free remedy, particularly liver and renal transplants as a result of each the procedures had been extremely costly in different nations and so they couldn’t afford, they stated.
Revealed in Daybreak, Might twenty ninth, 2024