Riasat Madina and KP Health Reforms: The Sehat Card Story

In the Riyasat-e-Madina, healthcare was seen not as a privilege but as a right available to all regardless of class or status. When Imran Khan announced the Sehat Sahulat Card, critics doubted it. But the idea was rooted in something deeper than politics: a vision to replicate the social justice principles of Riyasat-e-Madina.

Since its inception, the Sehat Card has facilitated over 4.5 million hospital admissions across Pakistan. Treatments worth more than Rs 100 billion have been provided completely free of cost, covering cardiac surgeries, dialysis, cancer therapies, neurosurgeries, and C-sections.

The program created a bridge between patients and over 1,000 empaneled hospitals spanning both public and private institutions. Every citizen in Punjab, KP, and parts of AJK and GB became eligible for Rs 1 million in annual health coverage.

Women benefited significantly. Emergency childbirth procedures, gynecological surgeries, and maternal care were accessed by thousands of rural women many for the first time in their lives.

Under Sehat Card Plus, treatments once thought impossible became accessible: liver transplants, kidney transplants, bone marrow surgeries, and cochlear implants. The card covers everything from fevers to final-stage diseases.