ISLAMABAD: Former finance minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra, Tuesday, while stressing the serious reforms in education, health, social and public sector job market has said that the government must introduce and implement these reforms in a bid to sail the country out of the current problems.

Speaking at a seminar organised by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), he also talked about across the board pension reforms, saying surety of pension after retirement in government service was one of the major reasons attracting the people to join government service.

He said that hefty amount spent on pension and other such expenditures leave little room for developing health and education sector, therefore, bringing viable reforms in public sector employment was the need of the hour.

Jhagra, stressing the need for privatisation of the health sector, said that health insurance was a critical instrument to provide best health facilities to the masses as the specialist health physicians were not ready to be deputed in far-flung areas in government-run hospitals, however, by providing health insurance to the people, government can enable them to get required treatment from any private hospital.

He also opposed the idea of opening of public sector universities in every district of the country, saying this will only result in further deteriorating the education system and will only benefit a handful of people.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2024