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Commentary

“Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan

by
Syed Shahzad Hasan
1,
Zia Ul Mustafa
2,
Chia Siang Kow
3 and
Hamid A. Merchant
1,4,*
1
Department of Pharmacy, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
2
Department of Pharmacy Services, District Head Quarter Hospital, Pakpattan 57400, Pakistan
3
School of Pharmacy, International Medical University, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur 57000, Malaysia
4
Health Services Academy, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(12), 6998; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19126998
Submission received: 8 March 2022 / Revised: 31 May 2022 / Accepted: 1 June 2022 / Published: 7 June 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measuring Health Inequities Among Vulnerable Populations)
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Abstract

Universal Health Coverage (UHC), initiative from the World Health Organization (WHO), is a means to provide the human right to health by providing essential health services to everyone, enabling disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care. In line with the WHO recommendations, the UHC was first introduced in Pakistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province under the name ‘Sehat Sahulat Programme’ (SSP), literally ‘Health Facility Program’ in 2015. The provincial Government in Punjab approved a similar initiative in Punjab, the largest province (by population) of the country, and the program was later rolled out in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Azad and Jammu Kashmir (AJK), Gilgit Baltistan (GB), Sindh, and Baluchistan provinces leaping into the nation-wide coverage. This article provides a current overview of the UHC initiative in Pakistan, analyses its progress in appraising key milestones, and makes recommendations to achieve a robust universal health coverage across Pakistan.
Keywords: Universal Health Coverage; World Health Organization; Benazir Income Support Program (BISP); Sehat Insaf Cards; low and middle-income countries Universal Health Coverage; World Health Organization; Benazir Income Support Program (BISP); Sehat Insaf Cards; low and middle-income countries

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Hasan, S.S.; Mustafa, Z.U.; Kow, C.S.; Merchant, H.A. “Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 6998. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19126998

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Hasan SS, Mustafa ZU, Kow CS, Merchant HA. “Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(12):6998. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19126998

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Hasan, Syed Shahzad, Zia Ul Mustafa, Chia Siang Kow, and Hamid A. Merchant. 2022. "“Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 12: 6998. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19126998

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Hasan, S. S., Mustafa, Z. U., Kow, C. S., & Merchant, H. A. (2022). “Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), 6998. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19126998

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