The Managing Director, Anambra State Health Insurance Agency, ASHIA, Dr Simeon Onyemaechi has mandated Officers in Charge of primary healthcare facilities to always refer critically ill enrollees who are under the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund to their designated secondary healthcare facilities for effective and qualitative treatment.
Dr Onyemaechi made this known at a retraining of OIC’s on the use of (BHCPF) Monitoring and Evaluation collection tool in Awka.
Dr. Onyemaechi who expressed displeasure at the low outcome of secondary care referrals recorded within one year, added that a healthcare professional should not risk the life of his patient and must always know when to refer patients as well as limit themselves to primary level of care treatments.
The ASHIA Managing Director while speaking on the poor access to health care, cautioned against the submission of encounter forms even when enrollees do not access care and advised them to desist from such fraudulent acts.
The BHCPF Focal person, Mrs. Okpalanwaka Juliet, while retraining the participants on the Monitoring and Evaluation data collection tool, reminded the OIC’s on the importance of early submission of data, for proper documentation and validation.
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