President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday said Pakistan, having achieved economic turnaround, is now focused on a long-term human resource development strategy with a thrust on improvement in key health and education sectors. The president, while talking to Director General World Health Organisation Dr JW Lee, who called on him at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, said the government is pursuing a holistic human resource development strategy that aims at reducing poverty, raising literacy levels and ameliorating health conditions of the people.
"We believe that economic stability has provided a strong base for Pakistan to develop its human resource potential as ultimately it is the level of human development that ensures sustainable and widespread socio-economic progress," he underlined.
The President particularly referred to the government's emphasis on improving primary and secondary healthcare through a number of programmes, including realisation of better medical facilities, expansion of health services and launch of awareness campaigns throughout the country.
The President said the upbeat economic scenario had also enabled the government to arrest poverty levels, which had been growing in the past several years.
'The consistent growth in both industrial and agrarian sectors has provided economic opportunities to people in both urban and rural areas. At the same tine, the government has launched micro finance schemes to reach out to the poorest people in far-off areas to enable them to stand up on their feet, he said.
The Director General, WHO, expressed deep appreciation for the government policies.
He described the initiatives being pursued as the right approach towards attaining socio-economic well-being of the people and observed that good governance is the key to human development since it helps realise better facilities in social sectors. Minister for Health Mohammad Naseer Khan and Regional Director WHO Dr Hussain Gezairi and country representative Khalif Bile Mohamoud were also present during the meeting.
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