{"id":78587,"date":"2026-07-15T17:23:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinaurdu.com\/eng\/?p=78587"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:23:57","slug":"ai-powered-disease-diagnosis-planned-for-1100-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaurdu.com\/eng\/?p=78587","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered disease diagnosis planned for 1,100 hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD (Lord Media): The federal government has decided to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) for disease diagnosis under the Prime Minister&#8217;s Health Card Program, benefiting 200 million Pakistanis with advanced diagnostic systems. This initiative aims to enable rapid diagnosis of complex diseases, including cancer and neurological disorders.<\/p>\n<p>AI systems will be implemented in 1,100 public and private hospitals, with an agreement expected next month between Alibaba Group and the Health Card Program.<\/p>\n<p>Sources indicate that AI could save billions of rupees in diagnostic costs. The program will be rolled out in Islamabad, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Kashmir. The Prime Minister has also invited the head of Alibaba Group to visit Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government spends 10 billion rupees annually on the Prime Minister&#8217;s Health Card, Punjab 60 billion, Balochistan 10 billion rupees, while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa spends over 40 billion rupees annually on the Sehat Sahulat Card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI to be used for disease diagnosis under PM Health Card, benefiting 200 million Pakistanis with advanced systems, saving billions in costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[311,3355,3356,221],"ppma_author":[94],"class_list":["post-78587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-social-affairs","tag-ai","tag-disease-diagnosis","tag-health-card","tag-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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