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Mustafa Kamal. Photo: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Union Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Sehat Card has been launched in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), enabling all permanent residents to avail free healthcare facilities.
The minister made these remarks during a meeting with Gilgit-Baltistan provincial health minister and information minister where the challenges of ongoing health projects in Gilgit-Baltistan were discussed.
Kamal said the federal government is using all available resources to improve health services there, adding that there is a need to improve the quality of services in hospitals enrolled under the Sehat Card program.
“I will soon visit these areas to personally review the health facilities provided under the health card,” the minister said, adding that the federal government has also provided three vehicles to Gilgit-Baltistan to support health services.
The Gilgit-Baltistan Ministers expressed their gratitude to the Federal Health Minister for extending the Prime Minister’s Sehat Card facilities.
