{"id":1146,"date":"2016-10-22T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2016-10-22T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:33:24","slug":"nawaz-says-government-is-a-transient-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz says government is a transient thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PM gives a health card to a man at a ceremony. PHOTO: INP<\/p><\/div>\n

BAHAWALPUR:<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said no one can remain in power for ever and that the governments must take care of the people and be honest as the real authority belongs to the masses.<\/p>\n

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In an impassioned address during which he moved to tears at the launch of PM\u2019s National Health Card scheme in Rahim Yar Khan on Friday, Nawaz said the government in the past squandered billions of rupees on projects that did not provide any direct benefit to people.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy such acts, these rulers harm their afterlife. Government\u2019s resources belong to people and it is a big sin to use that money for personal gain,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Nawaz claimed that his government was making every effort to reduce the miseries of the common man by providing them better life amenities. \u201cI want to ease the lives of the common people by giving them access to basic facilities in a dignified way, particularly better health services,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The programme, started in 2015, will be extended to 23 cities. \u201cAnd now it has been initiated in Rahim Yar Khan to help poor people to get better medical facilities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nawaz, who got visibly emotional, said poor people in the country had little or no access to healthcare and in case of diseases like cancer or cardiac diseases, they were unable to afford expensive treatment.<\/p>\n

He said the PM\u2019s Health Card scheme would enable patients to gain access to public and private hospitals on panel, even for the treatment of cancer, cardiac issues including by-pass surgery and angioplasty, liver diseases such as hepatitis, pregnancy and post-natal complications, injuries and burns.<\/p>\n

He said the insurance card will cover for medical treatment of up to Rs0.3 million. However, on exhausting of limit, the treatment would be completed with the financial assistance of Baitul Maal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the government has to spend even half of the total budget on the health facilities, it will spend it for the better medical facilities,\u201d he claimed. He mentioned that 0.39 million families had so far been registered with the scheme in the cities including Islamabad, Quetta, Kotli, Skardu, whereas work in Lasbela and Khanewal, was in progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome 334,000 people will benefit through this scheme and get the medical treatment from public or private hospitals on their panel,\u201d Nawaz added. The prime minister said his government had launched several development projects, which would usher in an era of progress and prosperity.<\/p>\n

He mentioned that a network of motorways was being expanded across the country, adding that it was only the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz that built a motorway in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsk any other political party, government or dictator in the past. None of them have constructed motorways, which not only reduce distances but end poverty,\u201d he said. Earlier, the prime minister gave away health cards to the deserving families and individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BAHAWALPUR: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said no one can remain in power for ever and that the governments must take care of the people and be honest as the real authority belongs to the masses.   In an impassioned address during which he moved to tears at the launch of PM\u2019s National Health Card […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-law-order","category-politics","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}