PESHAWAR, Mar 26, 2026:
Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi on Thursday reviewed facilities being provided under the Sehat Insaf Card programme and stressed the need for improving healthcare services, particularly in rural areas of the province. The Governor was briefed during a meeting at Governor House Peshawar by Dr. Muhammad Riaz Tanoli, Chief Executive Officer Sehat Card Plus KP. The briefing highlighted medical facilities being extended to the public under the Sehat Insaf Card initiative. It was informed that four hospitals in Dera Ismail Khan were currently providing treatment facilities under the programme. However, the Governor was told that specialist doctors were not available in hospitals located in Parova, Daraban, Paharpur and Kulachi tehsils. Expressing concern, the Governor said that the absence of specialist doctors in rural areas reflected a lack of seriousness on the part of the provincial government in the health sector. He said that advanced procedures such as kidney and liver transplants were only available in major hospitals in Peshawar. Kundi said he would take up the matter of appointing specialist doctors in Dera Ismail Khan with the health authorities and directed that transparency and quality of the programme be further improved, adding that no compromise would be made on provision of healthcare facilities to the public.
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