CHAKWAL: Prime Minister Imran Khan says the government will ensure universal health coverage in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtukhwa by the end of next year under the Health Card Scheme.
He was addressing a ceremony in Chakwal on Saturday after performing ground-breaking of various development projects. These projects include Chakwal University, a five hundred-bed hospital, a Law College and the Ring Road.
The Prime Minister said by next year, every family in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will have Health Card, enabling them to get free medical treatment up to one million rupees in any hospital of the country.
He said the government plans to build a health system that will ensure basic health facility across the country. He said the private sector is being encouraged and facilitated to establish hospitals.
Underlining the importance of education for overall development of the country, Imran Khan said the government that plans for the next generations focuses on education. He said the country will grow fast if its youth is equipped with education and technological skills.
Imran Khan said his government is working to reduce the debt burden of the country. In this direction, he said, a major milestone has been achieved. He said the country's Current Account has been in surplus for the last five months for the first time in 17 years. Similarly, he said fiscal deficit is also being controlled.
The Prime Minister vowed to make the government's Ehsaas Program the best poverty alleviation program in the world. He said he is going to launch another program aimed at ensuring that no citizen sleeps hungry.
He said a revolutionary local government system will be introduced that will empower people at grassroots level.
Alluding to the opposition, Imran Khan said the PDM is undermining the country by targeting the institutions in their speeches. He regretted that the language being used by the PDM leaders is same to that of the Indian propaganda machine against Pakistan. He said the opposition complains of rigging in the last elections, but it neither presented any evidence nor did it move any forum in this regard.
Imran Khan said the previous rulers who looted wealth of the country want to build pressure for securing NRO on their cases. He said giving them NRO by any government will be tantamount to sedition against the country.
Later talking to newsmen, the Prime Minister expressed dismay at his political opponents' self-centred tactics and predicted that soon their parties would face formation of forward blocs in the assemblies.
He said having spent millions of rupees on election campaigns, how the legislators of the opposition parties' alliance could resign on the assertions of their leadership.
The Prime Minister said the parliamentarians would not accede to such demands as they know it very well that such antics are employed by their leadership to save their corruption.
He said whole nation knows the corruption tainted leaders very well, who have plundered the country during the last 30 years.
The Prime Minister reiterated his strict stance of no compromise over opposition's corruption cases and said any NRO even by any government would be the biggest treason.
He said targeting Army Chief and Director General Inter Services Intelligence is tantamount to speaking the language of India which has the most anti-Indian and anti-Muslim government of the Subcontinent.
