Health Card Project for Peace and Prosperity

The latest episode of Jarga Maraka (Debate and Council) focused on the health project of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government’s aimed at providing citizens wih healthcards.

The target of this project is to eliminate extremism and harsh behavior due to lack of access to health facilities. Dr. Sheraz Ahmad, coordinator of the Sehat Insaf Card, KP, was the studio guest of the show.

Dr. Ahmed stated that in the first two phases of the project we successfully reached and provided health cards to 1.4 million families. Now, in the third phase of the project, we will issue another 1 million cards to underprivileged families of the province. He added that the KP government will spend Rs. 3.5 billion per annum on the project.

He added that this facility can certainly play a vital role in behavioral changes and mitigate extremism.

Our listeners took keen interest in the topic and 22 listeners took part in the program through live calls. Some of callers appreciated the project but some of them complained against the listed hospitals’ staff.

About Sabawoon

Sabawoon airs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) since 2011. It began as a counter-radicalization, strategic communications program, designed to highlight and promote the fundamental governance values such as democracy, rule of law, women’s rights, and equal citizenry, social cohesion.

The show airs Monday through Thursday every week under four themes on FM-101.5 Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan 711 KHZ from 3:20 PM to 4:00 PM.

On Monday, Jarga Maraka covers current affairs and important regional issues with an input from government and other senior officials. On Tuesday, Da Simay Jaaj gives an overview of the top stories from KP and FATA regions. Jwandai Jazbey airs on Wednesday and deals with issues of relevance to, and significance for, youth, students and women. Socio-cultural affairs are discussed in Ranra on Thursday.