The provincial Minister for HR&MA Ijaz Alam Augustine has said that PTI’s Government had launched the first phase of the countrywide Sehat Insaf Card scheme to provide free medical treatment to approximately 80 million people. He said the cards will be distributed in Islamabad, tribal areas and then all over the country in initial phases. He expressed these views while talking with a delegation of minorities from south Punjab at camp office on Thursday. The minister said that PTIs government is providing medical facilities especially to citizens of South Punjab, as part of its poverty alleviation drive across Pakistan’s poorest districts, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in its manifesto had stated that it would "upscale the Sehat Insaf Card Programme across the Pakistan to provide access to quality healthcare to citizens." He also said that no government in the history of Pakistan has made such an investment on underprivileged members of the society.
