The Punjab is launching a health insurance scheme by the end of June this year to provide quality healthcare to the poor and the low-middle class. The revelation came in a Punjab Health Initiative Management Company's board of directors' gathering on Friday where Advisor to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique announced that in the first phase the four poorest districts would include Layyah, Rajanpur, Chakwal and Hafizabad then come the next phase.
Dr Ayesha Ghaus Pasha, who is a Member of the Provincial Assembly, chaired the meeting.
The advisor told the officials that top quality healthcare services had been his government priority and that there was a need for such highly qualified and experienced people for different posts of in the company to run the scheme after going through a purely merit-based selection.
The meeting also finalised a string of recommendations, which the Punjab Health Foundation Managing Director Izhar Ahmed Sheikh briefed his audience about their draft, to name chief executive officer, secretary, chief financial officer, enrolment, and empanelment, health insurance, and IT/MIS directors, respectively. It then prepared the recommendations on recruitment criteria, qualification, experience and other modalities for the top posts to select the highly qualified people.
In her speech, Dr Pasha talked about the recommendations that would be forwarded the chief minister for the final approval and that all arrangements were being finalised. About the selection of the poor and the deserving families, she revealed that it would be made on the basis of data from the Benazir Income Support Programme.
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