The Executive Secretary, Anambra State Health Insurance Agency, Dr. Simeon Onyemaechi, has urged Ward Development Chairmen, WDC’s, and Officers in charge of various Primary Health Care Centres in the State, to ensure that Ndi Anambra benefit maximally from the implementation of the National Basic Healthcare Provision Fund.
Dr. Onyemaechi made this known during an interactive meeting with the Ward Development Chairmen and Officers in charge of PHC’s, held at Professor Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre Awka.
Addressing the participants, Dr. Onyemaechi noted that the aim of the National Basic Healthcare Provision Fund which was attracted by the Governor Willie Obiano administration is aimed at giving affordable healthcare services to the vulnerable Ndi Anambra.
Dr. Onyemaechi who is also the Special Adviser to Governor Obiano on Health, said the agency discovered that the rate at which the beneficiaries of the scheme in the State access the services are declining, hence the meeting, and asked the participants to do more sensitization to ensure that Ndi Anambra benefit optimally in the scheme which is free.
The ASHIA boss made it clear that they registered eighty-five persons per political ward in the State which brings the number of beneficiaries to over twenty-eight thousand people and thanked Governor Obiano for attracting the scheme in Anambra state.
Earlier, the Executive Secretary, Anambra State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Chioma Ezenyimulu, represented by Dr. Nnamdi Uliagbafusi, urged both the WDC’s and IOCs to ensure full utilization of the money being given to them for the treatment of poor and vulnerable Ndi Anambra.
Correspondent Chibuzor Okoye reports that the meeting climaxed with a question-and-answer session.
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