Kano state government last Thursday flag off the commencement of free primary and secondary health care provisions for indigent persons in the state.
The Executive Security, Kano state Contributory Heath Care Scheme, KSCHCS , Dr Hailma Mohammed Mijinyawa, who superintend over the commencement of the first phase enrolment exercise disclosed that 79,000 beneficiaries were been targeted.
Mijinyawa in an interview with journalists at Muritala Muhammad Library, venue of the enlistment exercise , she noted that those to be enrolled into the health largesse were drawn from all the 44 local government councils in the state.
According to her, the wide spread free health care services at the expense of the state and federal government will cover Persons With Disabilities, PWD, sickle cell patients and the wards of PWD’s.
Minjiywa further hinted that the exercise is free, adding that that those enlisted will have access to free one year duration of primary and secondary medical services without contributing the banal requisite minimal 10 percent been levied on other contributory health care scheme.
Enumerating the challenges bothering the enrollment exercise, Mijinyawa lamented that mass number of the supposed beneficiaries do not possess the required National Identification Number, NIN to access the programme , explaining that potential beneficiaries must be holders of NIN.
She further decried that the failure by the earmarked prospective beneficiaries to produce their NIN has lead to technical hitches that led to the delay that was recorded prior to the commencement of the programme.
Minjiyawa urged the beneficiaries to make appropriate use of the health opportunity , disclosing that the state and federal government have invested hugely to cater for the health needs of the indigent persons through the execution of the free health programme .
