Reforming Sehat Sahulat Program: Towards Transparent Cost & Universal Coverage
The Sehat Sahulat Program SSP was initiated in 2016 by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to ensure universal health coverage for all households of the province. This initiative will reduce the Out of Pocket (OOP)expenditure of the household on health. The PSLM data 2018-19 shows that in KP households are facing catastrophic health expenditures. In total the Out of Pocket (OOP) households are 12.9 percent, Outpatients are 9.2 percent and Inpatient are 3.2 percent, where self-medication is zero. The data also shows the households driven to poverty due to health expenses. In KP it shows OOP with 0.3 percent, 0.2 percent for Outpatients and for Inpatients and Self-medication it is zero.
