Staff Reporter
The Sehat Sahulat Programme is a social health protection initiative of federal and participating provincial and regional governments working to provide free of cost health insurance, for indoor health care services to the poor, vulnerable and marginalized families in Pakistan.
During 2016 and 2018 the programme started with phase-I of the initiative. During that initiative it focused on below poverty families, providing benefit package of Rs 50,000 per family per year for low cost secondary care diseases and Rs 250,000 per family per year for expensive seven priority care diseases.
The programme was then implemented in 38 districts across Pakistan covering 3.2 million families. From 2019 the programme started phase-II of the initiative, under which it not only expanded its benefit package to Rs 60,000 per family per year for low cost secondary care disease.
