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Lahore: Punjab Finance Minister Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman has said that focus of the government is upon primary and protective healthcare so
that to achieve the International standards in public healthcare, and Rs. 102 billion will be spent in the province during next fiscal year, which is 10.9 percent of the total budget.
While talking to various delegations, Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman said that no burden has been put on the poor and middle class segment of the society in the budget 2013-14 and tax has been imposed only on affluent population. He said that protective healthcareprogrammes would be continued to save the children from epidemic, communicable and non-communicable diseases. He said that Punjab government was appointing gynecologists in public sector of hospitals of the province and had focused on the health of infants and mothers and for this purpose free delivery services were being provided to the pregnant women at rural health centers.
He said that Rs. 2 billion will be spent to launch a comprehensive mother & child healthcare programme. The proposed programmes for the maternal and neonatal healthcare will ensure progress towards achieving the international standards.
Mian Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman said that district governments will be given 239 billion rupees in the next financial year. The Provincial Minister further said that Punjab government has decided to issue health cards to the poor and resource-less people so that they could avail better treatment facilities and a sum of 4 billion rupees has been earmarked in the budget for this purpose. He said that in order to provide potable water to the masses water filtration plants will be installed with a sum of about Rs.10 billion. He said that a sum of 1.40 billion has been allocated in the budget for the hospitals in Multan, Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan.
The Finance Minister further said that in accordance with the vision of Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, luxury tax has been imposed on large houses.
