The Anambra State Health Insurance Agency (ASHIA), has said that it has recorded 230,000 active enrollees since the inception of the scheme in September, 2018.
Dr Simeon Onyemaechi, Managing Director, ASHIA, gave the statistics in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka.
Onyemaechi said the agency initiated an adoption model where philanthropists and the wealthy in the society adopted and paid health insurance premium for the less privileged, which increased the number of enrollees.
He said that Gov. Chukwuma Soludo’s administration was committed to attaining universal health coverage in the state.
“We have only 230,000 active enrollees who we pay their health insurance capitation on monthly basis.
“We have registered more than this number but we are only concerned with those who renew their plan.
“We have people who registered just to give birth or attend to one medical issue or the other and they did not renew afterwards. So, they are not active beneficiaries,” he said.
Onyemaechi said that the agency engaged the Anambra Town Announcers and the media to intensify awareness on the benefits of the health insurance scheme.
He urged residents to embrace the scheme by enrolling to avoid out-of-pocket health expenditure and to achieve universal health coverage in the state.
The Managing Director said the adoption model of the agency was a catalyst to saving lives of the poor and vulnerable in the society.
He appealed to the affluent and wealthy individuals in Anambra to embrace the adoption model and register less privileged persons in their various communities into the scheme.
“Gov. Soludo has remained resolute in ensuring that residents have access to affordable and quality healthcare services at all times, ” he said. (NAN).
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