Kano state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has signed into law the state Contributory Health Care Agency Bill 2016.
During a short ceremony at the state Executive Council chambers, the governor said history has been made as the development is a fulfillment of one of his inaugural promises, to better the living conditions of civil servants.
The Contributory Health Care is a scheme that among other things facilitates payment for medical and surgical expenses incurred by civil servants in the state, included in their benefit packages as a means of motivating them.
He stated that as the scheme is being implemented, private sector workers would also be incorporated, highlighting that it would be expanded subsequently to accommodate community involvement, so that access to health care delivery services in the grassroots would be enhanced.
Describing the scheme as sustainable because its source of funding is assured, Governor Ganduje congratulated the entire civil servants in the state, whose welfare would be enhanced, promising that a management would be constituted for the agency very soon.
Meanwhile, the governor inaugurated a nine – member Task Force on Graveyards, headed by the state Commissioner for Environment, Alh. Ali Haruna Makoda.
Governor Ganduje explained the state Task Force would collaborate with the state Standing Committee on Graveyards to improve their standard and to ensure renovation where necessary, as some of the final resting places were recently ravaged by flood and other environmental problems.
He appealed to community development associations to assist the government by embarking on dredging of culverts and drainages, especially those that traverse graveyards to check flood, DG Media and Communications, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, said in a statement.
