Over 3.5 million beneficiaries of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) are being covered under life insurance scheme, launched under its Waseela-e -Sehat programme.
This scheme was initiated in collaboration with State Life Insurance Corporation. A BISP official told APP on Monday that over 900 cases had already been processed during one year.
The official said another comprehensive health insurance scheme which covers entire family of BISP beneficiaries had been introduced in Faisalabad district two months back, which would be extended to other districts in the coming months.
The BISP has also introduced various programmes for its recipients to enable them to overcome poverty and the Waseela-e-Sehat is one of them, he added. He said that the BISP had made a remarkable progress by providing relief to over 4 million recipients, including flood and bomb blast victims, across Pakistan.