Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed has said that the government would start micro health insurance scheme at district level to provide the masses of the province better medical facilities. This he said while addressing a meeting of health officials in his office on Friday. The meeting reviewed the pace of ongoing different development projects in the province.
He directed the officials to finalise establishment of anti-snake and anti-rabies laboratories to check the growing number of snakebite deaths. The minister also directed to improve the pace of work on a three-year project worth Rs 2.35 billion to alleviate hepatitis from the province. Reviewing the pace of work on 13 registered and eight unregistered schemes in the current fiscal year (2008-09), he stressed on timely completion of these schemes so as to facilitate the poverty stricken masses of Sindh.