Special Assistant on Health Regulations Dr. Zafar Mirza says the government is committed to protect the basic rights of the transgender community.

Addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Tuesday, he said every transgender registered with NADRA, will be provided with Sehat Insaf Card.

He said the government has ensured the health insurance coverage to 6.8 million families, and 84 districts have been included in this program.

He said, by the end of next year, the facility of Sehat Insaf Card will be extended to fifteen hundred thousand families which are below the poverty line. 

Meanwhile, in a statement, Dr. Zafar Mirza said that government is determined to make the country free of spurious drugs.

He said strict legal action will be taken against the people associated with this heinous crime.

On the other hand, Drug Regulatory Authority has carried out crackdown against unregistered and substandard medicines in Lahore and Islamabad.

According to the Spokesperson of Ministry of Health Services, a team of federal drug inspectors raided Adcok pharmaceutical company and seized unregistered medicines and the company was sealed.

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