More than 100,000 Nasarawa State residents, including civil servants, orphans, and elderly parents, are enrolled under the state’s health insurance scheme.
At a town hall meeting organized on Tuesday in Lafia to commemorate International Universal Health Coverage Day, Dr. Gaza Gwamna, the Executive Secretary of the Nasarawa State Health Insurance Agency, revealed thinformation.
He clarified that the government of Nasarawa State and several private organizations paid for the program’s 100,000 beneficiaries.
He added that the participants, who have begun receiving medical care from various hospitals throughout the state, were registered under a variety of packages, including those for the public sector, the informal sector, the vulnerable, students, and others.
Gwamna urged healthcare providers to maintain a professional demeanor by providing their enrollees with the treatments they desire in order to boost public confidence in the insurance scheme.
He praised Governor Abdullahi Sule for his ongoing support of the organization, which in his opinion has helped it achieve remarkable success since NASHIA started operating in the state in 2019.
Gwamna praised individuals who adopted and supported impoverished people in their local communities and urged others to follow in their footsteps, while reassuring that the agency will continue to work hard to achieve universal health coverage for all state residents.
The state’s deputy governor, Emmanuel Akabe, who was represented by the commissioner of health, Ahmed Yahaya, stated that the government’s top focus is providing quality healthcare.
“The state government will continue to support the agency to succeed in its assignment. We are committed to ensuring good healthcare for residents that is why the governor recently directed that all casual workers in the health sector should be given permanent jobs,” Akabe added.
