By Salisu K Ismail
Jigawa government governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar says his government would spend not less than N900 million annually in the provision of free healthcare services to women and children for four years across the state.
The governor stated this yesterday during the flag-off of the contributory health care scheme held at the Dutse general hospital.
Explaining the idea behind introducing the scheme, governor Badaru said the program was meant to ease the public in assessing health care services in the state.
"High cost of healthcare services has been a challenge to families with low income and other vulnerable segments of the society which is why the government has increased the monthly funding from N15 million to N75million,"Badaru highlighted.
However, The governor stated that, the scheme would cover all pregnant women, children under the ages of five, accident victims, correctional inmates and boarding students across the state.
"The contributory healthcare scheme is a further effort in ensuring an overall objective of healthy and productive population through access to comprehensive, appropriate, affordable, efficient, equitable and quality essential health care", he stressed
Earlier, the executive secretary of the scheme Dr. Nura Ibrahim Kazaure said that about 40,000 civil servants and 200,000 dependants have so far been registered under the scheme in the state.
The Executive Secretary therefore stated that, the registered beneficiaries can immediately begin to access the services with their family members in their chosen healthcare facilities within the 191 approved healthcare providers that comprised both private and public in the state.
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