The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, in collaboration with Sehat Kahani, has inaugurated the tenth digital health center at CHC Shah Allah Ditta in Islamabad, marking another milestone in the ongoing rollout of the Federal Healthcare Digitalization Program. The newly launched facility now offers paperless, telemedicine enabled care, allowing patients in the area to access medical consultations and services through digital infrastructure rather than relying solely on traditional in person processes.
The inauguration ceremony brought together a range of senior government and health sector figures, reflecting the scale of institutional coordination behind the digitalization programme. Federal Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Syed Mustafa Kamal attended the event alongside Member of the National Assembly Anjum Aqeel Khan, Head of EPI Dr. Shazia Gul, and District Health Officer Dr. Syeda Rashida Batool. Representing Sehat Kahani were the organization’s Co-founder and CEO Dr. Sara Saeed Khurram and Co-founder and COO Dr. Iffat Zafar Aga, whose organization has played a central role in delivering the telemedicine infrastructure supporting the federal digitalization effort. Senior ministry officials, health administrators, and community representatives were also present at the ceremony, along with media personnel covering the launch.
With the addition of the Shah Allah Ditta facility, Pakistan now has ten digital health centers operational across the country as part of this programme, each designed to strengthen access to digitally enabled primary healthcare services within their respective communities. The consistent rollout of these centers suggests a structured expansion strategy on the part of the health ministry and its partners, gradually extending telemedicine and paperless healthcare infrastructure to additional communities rather than concentrating digital health resources in a small number of locations. The programme’s emphasis on paperless operations also points to a broader effort to modernize record keeping and reduce administrative friction within primary healthcare settings, an approach that mirrors similar digitization pushes seen across other government sectors in Pakistan.
The continued expansion of the Federal Healthcare Digitalization Program reflects sustained government interest in using digital health infrastructure to improve access to primary care, particularly in communities that may have previously faced longer wait times or limited access to specialist consultations through conventional healthcare delivery models. As the tenth center in the network, the Shah Allah Ditta facility adds to a growing body of evidence around how public private partnerships between government health bodies and digital health organizations like Sehat Kahani can be used to scale telemedicine services across different regions of the country, with further expansion of the network likely as the programme continues to develop.
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