Unity vital for early success of liberation struggle: Masood Khan.

MUZAFFARABAD -- The Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Muhammad Masood Khan has said that work on war footings is needed to achieve by 2030 the targets of universal health coverage of all citizens in the light of sustainable development goals.

Talking to Director-General Health Department, Dr. Sardar Aftab Hussain Khan here on Friday, he said that besides the availability of quality medicines, steps should be taken to ensure telehealth services to the people of far-flung areas of the liberated territory.

Stressing the need of a supply of inexpensive and quality medicines, the AJK president said that the health department in collaboration with other departments should ensure supply of potable drinking water in both urban and rural areas to rid the people of water-borne diseases.

Earlier in his briefing, Dr. Sardar Aftab Hussain told the state president that during the last eight months, the health department had taken revolutionary steps to provide quality health facilities to the people, and provided surgical facilities in almost all hospitals located at district headquarters. The hospitals, he added were including District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) Athmuqam, DHQ Hattian, and health centers in Hajira and Duddial, while under prime Minister's Health Insurance Scheme, more than 325,000 families have been registered. In this way, 70 percent of registration work has been completed under this scheme.

He said that the CT scan facility has been provided at CMH Muzaffarabad, while under a public-private partnership, the same facility will be provided in all DHQs shortly.

Meanwhile, talking to a delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Alliance which called on him under...