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Jigawa State Governor Badaru Abubakar has launched the Contributory Health Insurance Scheme for civil servants.
The scheme was conceived to eliminate the cost barrier in delivering healthcare to all residents and target vulnerable groups such as women and children.
Badaru emphasised his administration’s readiness to bring healthcare closer to the people by eliminating the burden of high costs associated with medical care.
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The scheme, he said, would dovetail into the administration’s provision of physical infrastructure comprising 83 new Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs), four new General Hospitals and two Specialist Hospitals in the last five years.
The governor and Head of Service, Kila, were officially enrolled to kick-start the enrolment of all civil servants in the first phase of the scheme.
The phase will take care of 70,000 people made up of workers, families and five dependents of each worker.
Director of Programmes, Jigawa State Contributory Health Care Management Agency, Dr Mahmud Abdulwahab stated that the government had begun the payment of N75million monthly equity fund to cover the health services of vulnerable groups not either formally or self-employed, particularly women and children.
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