Overview
- The PHIMC Board cleared implementation of the special health programmes after cabinet assent, assigning Rs13 billion for cancer care, over Rs1.2 billion for stroke services and Rs3 billion for adult cardiac surgery each year.
- Fourteen stroke centres are administering free TNK injections—costing about Rs300,000 per dose—with official data citing more than 700 recoveries in the past year.
- Officials have directed expansion of stroke services to additional districts to widen timely access to TNK treatment.
- The adult cardiac surgery programme will deliver free procedures worth Rs3 billion annually, while the children’s programme has reached 9,648 free heart surgeries to date.
- Related initiatives have provided 1,151 free transplants across renal, cochlear, liver, bone marrow and corneal categories, with instructions issued to resolve issues at empanelled hospitals.