The Edo State Health Insurance Commission has registered over 9,604 elderly, physically challenged, pregnant women and other vulnerable persons to benefit from the Equity Plan of the Edo State Health Insurance Scheme (EDOHIS).
Director- general, Edo Health Insurance Commission, Amegor Rock, disclosed this while addressing journalists in Benin City.
He added that the government was sustaining reforms in the health sector so as to improve access to quality and affordable healthcare services to all residents in the state.
According to him, those targeted under the equity plan of the health insurance scheme are “children under the age of five, physically challenged, aged persons from 60 years and above, poor pregnant women and the poorest of the poor.”
“The BHCPF is targeting to register 25,000 residents across all the 18 local government areas in Edo State. The Equity Plan provides health insurance cover for the vulnerable who do not have any source of livelihood,” Rock added.
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He noted that the commission was collaborating with the Edo State Primary Health Care Development Agency (EDSPHCDA) and the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to ensure that enrolees of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) have access to quality health care.
The DG further disclosed that over 187 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCS) have been assessed for the programme.
The state plans to capture at least one million persons as beneficiaries of EDO-HIS by the end of 2021, while about 50 percent of residents in the state would have enrolled for the scheme by the year 2024.
