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The Oyo State Health Insurance Agency (OYSHIA) has disclosed that it has registered more communities in the state’s health insurance scheme.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Sola Akande, said this in a recent interview.
He said: ” We are gradually scaling up our community-based health insurance, which is a major deal across the land and we already have a lot of communities putting themselves together to come on board. What we are doing is to get at least 2500 people per community to come together and we will bring them on board with N4000,” he said.
He explained that his concern has always been about how health insurance get to the grassroots because people at the grassroots do not have money to take care of their health.
The Executive Secretary also appreciated people, including politicians that have been supporting by putting down money to enroll more people into the scheme at the grassroots level.
Akande added that the pensioners’ health insurance is still ongoing, adding that pensioners will soon start accessing care once payment is completed.
He noted that enrolling pensioners into the scheme officially is the first of its kind in Nigeria.