People of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will get free kidney and liver transplant facility at Pakistan Kidney & Liver Institute Lahore – Mahmood Khan
Chitral Times Report
PESHAWAR: As a significant development to provide free treatment facilities to the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Pakistan Kidney & Liver Institute Lahore and State Life Insurance of Pakistan. Under the MoU, the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will get free kidney and liver transplant facility at Pakistan Kidney & Liver Institute Lahore. This free liver and kidney transplant facility will be provided to the patients of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under Sehat Card Plus Scheme. It merits a mention here that huge expenses of Rs. 50 lac per patient on liver transplant and Rs. 14 lac per patient on kidney transplant would be borne by provincial government under the Sehat Card Plus Scheme.
In a statement issued in this regard, Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has termed the development as a good news for the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and said that free liver and kidney transplant facility would be provided to the patient of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in other reputed medical institutions as well. He added that his government was working to cover free cancer treatment as well as free OPD services under the Sehat Card Plus Scheme.
