100. 000 enroll for community health insurance scheme in Kwara - PS
A total of 100, 000 persons in Kwara have so far registered for the State Government's Community Health Insurance Scheme.
The Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Health, Alhaji Rafiu Ayinla, made this known in a statement issued in Ilorin on Sunday.
He said the state government was collaborating with Pharm Access Foundation and Hygeia Community Health Insurance Scheme to achieve a target of one million enrollees by the end of 2019.Towards this end, Alhaji Ayinla said the state government was organising a one-day conference on the State Health Insurance Research and Advocacy.
He said the conference would highlight the success story of the Community Health Insurance Scheme in Kwara State.
According to Ayinla, the conference will also serve as a model for other states desirous of attaining Universal Health Scheme through state support health insurance scheme.
The permanent Secretary said participants would be drawn from the World Bank, Department for International Development (DFID), National Health Insurance Scheme and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Other participants expected at the conference include the representatives of the Dutch Health Insurance fund, Permanent Secretaries, State Ministries of Health and other stakeholders," he said.
Ayinla said the one-day conference would be declared opened by the State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, on July 21st at Kwara Hotels in Ilorin. (NAN)
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
KSIRS Olatunde Olukoya Musa Abdullahi Kunle Akogun Congress For National Consensus Shola Odetundun Bilikisu Gambari Oladimeji Thompson Tunde Kazeem Awili Pedro CCT Ibrahim Issa Jetti Owo Isowo Kola Ologbondiyan Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede Umar Bayo Abdulwahab Salman Jawondo Abdulmutalib Shittu Olugbense Mohammed Yahaya Barki George Funsho Adebayo Aremu Bose Deborah Mansurat Amuda-Kannike Share MalHub Christopher Ayeni Bolaji Aladie Ajakaye Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman Crystal Corner Shops Ndakene Azeez Bello COVID Abdulrosheed Okiki Fatima Abolore Jimoh Durosinlohun Kawu Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund Agor Market Al-Adaby Bolaji Gambari Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin Temitope Ogunbanke Frootify Shuaib Abdulkadir Wasiu Onidugbe Eleyele Abdulkadir Jimoh Mike Omotosho Olatunde Michaels Sulaiman Gado Madawaki Of Ilorin Elections Towoju Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode Umar Danladi Shero Idris Garuba Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim Read With Me General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Nnazua Ibrahim Abdullahi Raji AbdulRasaq Kwara State Branch Of The National Library Bature Bello Moshood Bakare Baba-Isale TVC Female National Debate Taofik Mustapha Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment Kulende-UITH Muhammadu Gobir Alabi Lawal NYSC Lai Gobir Playing Host Mujtabah Bature Ronke Adeyemi