26,000 people benefit from PM’s health programme

Islamabad: The Prime Minister’s National Health Programme (PMNHP) has expanded its horizon to 26 districts of Pakistan. It has thus far provided indoor hospital treatment to more than 26,000 beneficiaries. More than 260 open heart surgeries, 700 angiographies, 1000 cycles of dialysis, 1400 normal deliveries, 1700 C Sections, 980 cholecystectomies, 1400 hernia repairs, 1400 appendectomies, 1000 cataracts and 1300 hysterectomies have been performed on programme beneficiaries through 92 empanelled hospitals all across Pakistan.

A third-party survey conducted by NADRA shows that the programme enjoys 93% patient satisfaction. The programme has recorded one of the highest ratios of cardiac anomalies in the Khyber agency of FATA. In AJK, the programme has been launched in Muzaffarabad and Kotli, where it is providing services to 95,000 enrolled families. However, efforts are on to include another 8 districts of AJK in the programme. In its new PC-1, Rs. 950 million have been allocated for expansion of the programme in AJK.

The programme is designed to provide quality health care services to women. So far, more than 15,000 women have been treated in the programme for various ailments.