Nadra to share daily data with health dept for free treatment of patients.

PESHAWAR -- The National Database and Registration Authority has agreed to share live data about new families and residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with health department to benefit the patients, who can't avail free treatment services on Sehat Card Plus owing to lack of their record.

'Younger people, who don't have Form B, are not eligible for free treatment despite being residents of KP as the programme facilitates only the people registered with Nadra. The authority has been providing update on province's population on quarterly basis. Now it has agreed to share information with health department about new entries the same day,' Dr Mohammad Riaz Tanoli, the chief executive of the free treatment programme, told Dawn.

He said that Nadra also managed the website of the programme with a feedback system since the government began covering the entire...