Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari criticised the federal government, saying that the centre wanted control over provincial education and population welfare rights.
Bilawal Bhutto said while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the new Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) unit in Karachi, “There are talks that Islamabad wants to keep the rights of education and population welfare to itself. It will be wrong.”
The PPP Chairman said while praising healthcare facilities in Sindh that a noticeable change can be witnessed in the hospital standards before and after the 18th Constitutional Amendment, which was approved in the PPP’s tenure in 2010.
He stated that the 18th Amendment played an important role in shifting the key powers from the centre to the provinces, and the PPP leader promised to protect these provincial rights.
Bilawal Bhutto mentioned that in the tenure of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the centre had tried to “snatch” the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) from the Sindh government.
He further added that the ticket holders of his party in Punjab also contacted him and Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah to widen the healthcare facilities in their areas.
Bilawal Bhutto highlighted issues in the recently introduced health card program in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“The KP government has put the health budget in the health card,” he said and raised questions over the model of the health programme scheme.
