MANSEHRA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government has launched distribution of Insaf Health Cards among 119,000 families of Mansehra district. “Eight members of 119,000 families selected through a poverty survey in the district could enjoy treatment services,” Jabran Malik the Naib Nazim of Dattar village council told a gathering of deserving women assembled in Gazikot to receive their cards on Monday. The deserving women from different villages of Datta union council received their cards. The Tehsil President of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Ajmal Khan Swati was also present on occasion. Naib Nazim Jabran Malik, who is also coordinator of Insaf health cards programme told the gathering that a total of 1350 families would be benefited of Insaf health card schemes alone in Datta union councils where a teams of concerned departments were verifying the heads of deserving families. “This is happening for the first time in our province that a deserving family could enjoy annul amount of Rs 540,000 for their treatment even in serious nature of diseases,” he said. Speaking on the occasion Ajmal Khan Swati said that his party would hold such programmes in other part of district to give away Insaf health cards to deserving families. He said that government wanted to ensure smooth sailing and distribution of Insaf health cards programme and it was those cards were being distributed through one-window operation where officials of concerned department were not only giving cards but SIMS and other requirements. The women who received cards told reporters that it was a great step taken by provincial government to provide health care and treatment services to deserving people even in such hospitals which were dream for them. Raids on Rural Health Centers: Chairman Standing Committee on Health in district council Dr Arshad Faheem visited Rural Health Centers Ahmadabad, Zaragandi and Warana Ahmadabad and found the health staffs absent and sent its report to district Nazim for further action. During his visit to the health centers the standing committee chairman resented the substandard cleanliness situation in the centers and the local people complained about the shortage of staffs and medicines. The local people further claimed that there were no health facilities available in the centers due to shortage of equipment and staffs and added that the people coming from remote areas of the district return disappointed as PTI government failed to translate their promises regarding the provision of health facility to the masses on their doorsteps into reality. The chairman of health standing committee informed the reporters on the occasion that he has found two female medical technicians absent during his visits to the three rural health centers of Tehsil Takht-e-Nusrati and added that there was also shortage of medicines in the centers.