The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has a comprehensive plan to make Pakistan a welfare state, and the focus of this plan is on outreach programmes and a paradigm shift in the health sector.
This was discussed at a seminar titled ‘Relevance of Manifestos in Political Dynamics of Pakistan,’ held here Wednesday to discuss PTI’s policies.
The event, organised by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), was the second in the series of seminars planned to bring manifestos of political parties into discussion.
It also discusses the impact of these manifestos on electorates in the run up to the general elections.
Giving introductory remarks, Dr. Abid Q. Suleri Executive Director SDPI said the event had been organised after the observation that the current scenario lacks issue-based debates among political parties.
“The PTI has a plan of 5 years that would gradually increase public health funding from 0.8pc of GDP to 2.6pc annually, resulting in an increase from the current expenditure of Rs165 billion to Rs1,260 billion,” a participant in the seminar said.
The five point health agenda of PTI, focused on policy shift from curative to preventive regime, was presented by Dr Humayun Mohammad, Head of International Chapter PTI.
The main feature of the policy was a complete decentralisation and de-politicisation of the health department, and a special priority on primary healthcare, mother and child care and school health programmes.
Dr Humayun Mohammad announced the creation of a ‘Health Equity Fund’ to pay for the treatment of catastrophic illnesses of the poor.
Talking about the use of technology, he said the PTI would develop a reliable and integrated ‘health information system’ for evidence based planning and decision making.
Khalid Jamil, Executive Director of Journalist for Democracy and Human Rights (JDHR) raised a question about the huge resources required for the implementation of education and health policies.
“These gigantic allocations are commendable, but resource mobilisation to materialise these claims seems to be difficult and needs careful reconsideration,” he said.
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