Pakistan: Government to launch National Health Insurance Programme
Source: Asia Insurance Review | Mar 2015
The Government of Pakistan plans to launch the Prime Minister’s National Health Insurance Programme for 66 selected districts of the country in phased manner with estimated cost of PKR45.078 billion (US$446 million) over a period of five years.
The scheme targeting the low income segment of the population will cover the beneficiary for treatment of cardio regular disease, diabetes, burns, road traffic accidents, renal disease and dialysis, TB, hepatitis, treatment of HIV chronic liver disease, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgical oncology.