{"id":82686,"date":"2021-12-30T17:57:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T12:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=82686"},"modified":"2021-12-30T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T12:57:57","slug":"govt-signs-mou-to-extend-health-insurance-for-federal-punjab-populace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-signs-mou-to-extend-health-insurance-for-federal-punjab-populace.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt signs MoU to extend health insurance for federal, Punjab populace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The federal and provincial governments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Life Insurance Corporation (SLIC) on Wednesday (December 29) to expand universal healthcare for the public, according to news reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-naya-pakistan-sehat-card-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PM launched PKR 440 bn Naya Pakistan Sehat Card programme for Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the said agreement, the people of Punjab, Islamabad, and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) would have access to PKR 1 million in health insurance per family annually from hospitals on the programme\u2019s panel. Reportedly, SLIC won the contract for health insurance cards for the next three years (2022-2025). According to reports, Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, as well as ministers for health from Punjab and the federal governments were present at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sehat-insaf-card-programme-be-extended-benefit-more-people.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sehat Insaf Card programme to be extended to benefit more people<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was announced that services covered by the Sehat Insaf Card and Qaumi Sehat Cards include open-heart surgeries, stent implantation, cancer management, neurosurgical procedures, burn management, accident management, dialysis, intensive care management, deliveries, C-section, and other medical\/surgical procedures, as well as kidney transplants. There is an inter-provincial\/inter-district portability option for receiving free services from any enrolled hospital in Pakistan. The announcement follows the premier&#8217;s recent visit to Punjab, where he offered insurance coverage for the whole province beginning January 1, 2022, under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sehat-sahulat-insaf-cards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sehat Sahulat Program<\/a>. The government would completely fund the initiative, which will allow residents to receive health care from panel hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal and provincial governments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Life Insurance Corporation (SLIC) on Wednesday (December 29) to expand universal healthcare for the public, according to news reports.\u00a0 Read: PM launched PKR 440 bn Naya Pakistan Sehat Card programme for Punjab Under the said agreement, the people of Punjab, Islamabad, and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) would have access to PKR 1 million in health insurance per family annually from hospitals on the programme\u2019s panel. Reportedly, SLIC won the contract for health insurance cards for the next three years (2022-2025). According to reports, Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, as well as ministers for health from Punjab and the federal governments were present at the event. Read: Sehat Insaf Card programme to be extended to benefit more people It was announced that services covered by the Sehat Insaf Card and Qaumi Sehat Cards include open-heart surgeries, stent implantation, cancer management, neurosurgical procedures, burn management, accident management, dialysis, intensive care management, deliveries, C-section, and other medical\/surgical procedures, as well as kidney transplants. There is an inter-provincial\/inter-district portability option for receiving free services from any enrolled hospital in Pakistan. The announcement follows the premier&#8217;s recent visit to Punjab,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":82694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15020],"tags":[50287,38082],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-social-developments","9":"tag-govt-signs-mou-to-extend-health-insurance","10":"tag-sehat-cards-for-families","11":"cat-15016-id","12":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt signs MoU to extend health insurance for federal, Punjab populace - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal and provincial governments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Life Insurance Corporation (SLIC) on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-signs-mou-to-extend-health-insurance-for-federal-punjab-populace.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt signs MoU to extend health insurance for federal, Punjab populace - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal and provincial governments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Life Insurance Corporation (SLIC) on\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-signs-mou-to-extend-health-insurance-for-federal-punjab-populace.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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