Govt committed to provide equal health facilities through Tele-health program: Science Minister.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Agha Hassan Baloch Thursday said the present government was committed to provide equitable health facilities and specialist health care consultations, free of charge, to the less developed areas of the country under the Tele-Health program.

Thousands of poor families would be benefited under this program which would be inaugurated next month, he said while chairing a review meeting of different organizations of the ministry at his office.

Agha Hassan Baloch directed the Chief Operating officer of COMSATS Internet Services ( CIS) Mr. Jamal Nasir to set up six more Tele Health facilities in the underprivileged areas of Balochistan including BHU Khuzdar, BHU waddh, BHU Kharan, BHU Qalat Pandran, BHU Jungle and Chaghi.

The federal minister said that Balochistan suffers from...