Health Insurance: Kwara to cover over 1m enrolees in 3yrs
- Bukola Adama
- Jul 9, 2015
- 2 min read
Kwara State Government has perfected plans to enrol no fewer than one million beneficiaries in its Health Insurance Scheme, the state Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has disclosed.
The governor spoke in Ilorin on Monday, while recieving in audience, the management of the National Health Insurance Scheme led by its Executive Secretary, Mr. Femi Akingbade.
He said by 2018, the Kwara State Health Insurance Scheme, which was launched in 2008, would have covered about one million people across the state.
The governor also disclosed that his government was planning a better platform to finance health programmes.
Ahmed, who described the programme as a welcome development, also pointed out that poor data collation had been only major factor militating against proper planning in the health sector.
In his address, the Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme, Mr. Femi Akingbade, described the Kwara State's health system as a well-structured health insurance.
Akingbade, who praised the governor for the gesture, said: "Kwara State Government has done so much on Health and the state's Health Insurance Scheme is the most structured Health Insurance all over the country.
The Executive Secretary while praising the governor for sustaining the state's Health Insurance programme, pointed out that the state had succeeded in blazing the trail for others to follow.
Akingbade, who told the governor that the global focus on health presently was on universal coverage, stressed that the purpose of his visit was to inform him about the 'State Supported Social Health Insurance' programme of the scheme.
The State Supported Social Health Insurance, according to him, was initiated to make Health Insurance compulsory for all and sundry and also give counterpart fund to the state to run the programme.
He also spoke of the NHIS's plan to use the state as pilot scheme for the programme, stressing that the programme would create avenue for the state government to have autonomy and run the programme at will.
He called on the government to identify poor and vulnerable people that would benefit from the programme and spoke of the NHIS's plan to give technical support to ensure the success of the programme.
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