The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has penned down an agreement with the Ministry of National Health Services Regulations and Coordination for rapid service delivery to Sehat Sahulat card holders.
According to the sources, Nadra will provide a ‘centralised information management system’ for permanent citizens of Punjab intended to benefit from the Sehat Sahulat programme.
The contract was signed by officials of Nadra and health authorities of federal and Punjab governments at the Nadra headquarters.
The system will help the residents of Punjab to take free healthcare facilities by using the computerized national identity card as a means of health card at authorized government and private hospitals.
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Signing the latest contract with MoNHSRC, Nadra will offer a digital solution system to Sehat Sahulat card holders which includes CNIC verification, Data Verification Services (Family Composition, Centralized Management Information System, Call Centre Services (Outbound) for the response of beneficiaries, Data Hosting and allied facilities and Hospital Services Module.
Speaking at the event, Nadra Chairman Tariq Malik remarked that the authority had an outstanding infrastructure to support the government’s reform efforts.
He added that Nadra was a key technology arm of the federal government that delivered its digital services in different areas from service delivery to social protection programmes.
Tariq Malik recollected that soon after the World Bank’s Poverty Scorecard survey was conducted in Pakistan, Nadra digitized it, reconciled it with the biometrics database and facilitated the compilation of the poverty database in 2012.
Under the scheme, 85 million people or 26.3 million families would have universal coverage in Punjab province, he added.
Moreover, in the initial phase of the programme, the deprived population (poor people), special persons and the transgender community) in 25 districts of Punjab, and all citizens of 11 districts of Lahore, Sahiwal, and Dera Ghazi Khan divisions will be eligible to receive healthcare services through Sehat Sahulat Programme.
Earlier, under the state-funded health programme, the authority facilitated more than a 1.6 million medical treatments in the country.
