PM for health plan for entire country

islamabad — Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said access to quality health-care services was the inherent right of every Pakistani, which was unfortunately denied to them for long.

It is only through provision of quality and affordable health services that the nation can achieve its full potential and gains on the economic and social fronts, he added.

The prime minister was chairing a meeting to review progress on the implementation of Prime Minister’s National Health Programme (PMNHP), here.

“We want to reach out to the poorest of the poor with a comprehensive package of curative health services, as I believe that the combination of diseases and poverty could be lethal for any poor family. We will break this deadly nexus between poverty and diseases”, he added.

The prime minister directed the Ministry of National Health Services to extend the programme to the entire country including Fata, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir with stringent monitoring system and zero tolerance for inefficiency at the implementation level. — APP