RAWALPINDI: The Punjab Health Initiative Management Committee has formally concluded free treatment through the health card programme in all public hospitals of the province, including Rawalpindi, from July 1, 2025. A formal circular notification has been made to this effect.
The Department of Public Health of the province has instructed the public hospital medical superintendents, district health officers, and district health authorities’ heads in Punjab not to accept any documents regarding free treatment from the beginning of the new financial year.
The concerned insurance company will also stop accepting any hospital documents for free medical services under the health card scheme from July 1. All ongoing treatments under the programme stand terminated from today.
As a response to the directive, all government hospitals in the Rawalpindi division have started discharging patients who had been admitted under the health card scheme.
They have been instructed to plan finances for surgeries, dialysis, and cardiac interventions like stent procedures.
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