The federal government has earmarked Rs 48701.460 million for Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Division (NHSRC) for 18 on-going and five new schemes for the financial year 2017-18.
According to the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), out of the total Rs 48.701 billion, Rs 37.500 billion have been earmarked for 18 on-going schemes, while Rs 16.901 billion have been allocated for five new schemes.
In the ongoing schemes, Rs 16.400 billion have been allocated for National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Healthcare, Rs 7.400 billon for Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), Islamabad, Rs 7.705 billion have been allocated for Population Welfare Programme, provinces, Rs 3 billion have been earmarked for Prime Minister’s National Health Programme and Rs 1.048 billion have been earmarked for National Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Programme (MNCH).
Similarly, Rs 16.901 billion have been allocated for five news schemes of which Rs 8 billion have been allocated for unapproved project of Prime Minister’s Programme for new hospitals (Phase-I), Rs 7 billion have been allocated for unapproved Prime Minister’s National Health Programm-Phase II, while Rs 1.317 billion have been allocated for Prime Minister’s Programme for new hospital, master planning, design, medical equipment planning and constitution supervision, services for construction of 500, 250 and 100 beds hospitals across Pakistan.
