Danliti Ibrahim
Kano State government will enroll 553 people living with HIV/AIDS to access free health care services on all ailments as part of their allocation for the Integration into basic health care provision fund.
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The executive secretary of state contributory healthcare management Agency Dr. Halima Muhammad Mijinyawa made the disclosure when she calls on the Director-General of the State Agency for the Control of AIDS in his office.
Dr. Mijinyawa said she was in the Agency to inform on the resolution made for the selection of eligible beneficiaries, and the criteria for their enrollment.
She explained that the Basic health provision fund is a federal government intervention that falls under the equity program of contributory health care scheme aimed at providing free health care service to pregnant women, children under five, the elderly, poorest and, people with disabilities.
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Earlier, the Director-General of the State Agency for the control of AIDS, Dr. Sabitu Y. Shu’aibu Shanono said the integration of HIV/AIDS into the program is a welcome development and is coming at a time when HIV/AIDS response world over is declining.
In a release by the Agency’s Public Relations Officer Aminu Bello Sani, He applauded the state contributory healthcare Agency for making the federal to enroll HIV/AIDS Patients into the NHIS program.
