Health
DR Simeon Onyemaechi, Managing Director, Anambra State Health Insurance Agency, has urged residents to enroll in the scheme to avoid high out-of-pocket health expenditures.
Onyemaechi told newsmen on Friday in Awka that the agency engaged the Anambra Town Announcers to intensify awareness on the benefits of the health insurance scheme.
He said that residents should enroll to save themselves from high out-of-pocket health expenditures that could potentially impoverish them.
He also said that the Gov. Chukwuma Soludo’s administration was committed to attaining universal health coverage in the state.
Onyemaechi said the agency initiated an adoption model where the philanthropists and the wealthy in the society adopt and pay health insurance premium for the less privileged had increased the number of enrollees.
According to him, the model increased the total number of enrollees in the state’s health insurance pool to 183,000 presently.
He said: “Presently, we have no fewer than 183,000 enrollees and the Governor has given us a mandate to increase the number of beneficiaries so that we can attain universal healthcare coverage.
“This is why we are engaging all critical stakeholders, including town announcers, to take the message of health insurance to the nook and crannies of Anambra.
“As town announcers, you can reach the rural communities and villages for better enlightenment and understanding of the health insurance policy in the state.”
He also urged the media, civil society organisations, community leaders, policy makers and influencers to be advocates for health insurance scheme to help the state attain universal health coverage by 2030. (NAN)
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