Yobe health scheme meets with beneficiaries to bridge existing gaps

By Yusuf A Yusuf, Damaturu

Yobe state Contributory Healthcare Management Agency(YSCHMA) in it quest  to ensure effective and efficient service delivery in achieving Universal Health Care Coverage has on wednesday organized a one day town hall meeting with it's enrolees as well as stakeholders across Yobe Zone A.

Declaring the meeting opened,Yobe state Commissioner of health and human services represented by the director planing research and statistics ,Dr Musa Sarki said,the meeting is an effort of the agency towards providing wider sensitization and engagement of beneficiaries of the scheme to understand the roles of all stakeholders involved including YSCHMA, health facilities and beneficiaries.

The commissioner stated that,the  meeting is also aimed at ensuring deeper understanding about the scheme and also stand as a mechanism to receive feedback from the individual's beneficiaries of the scheme in order to bridge existing gaps.

Earlier on his remarks,the Executive Secretary,Yobe State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency (YSCHMA)Dr Babagana Tijjani revealed that,the agency has recently review it's benefit package operational guidelines and service tariff for the state enrolees to benefit access service across the health care facilities in the state.

He stated that,what informed the decision of the town hall meeting across the 3 Senatorial Zones of the state is for the beneficiaries to understand the scheme very well.

"This is an avenue for the beneficiaries to understand the scheme very well as we are getting a lot of feedback from the healthcare facilities, getting feedback from the enrollees on issues bordering around out of stock syndrome at health care facilities.

"Under the formal sector of the scheme,we have so far enrolled about 95 percent of our target population, presently at the moment,we have about one hundred and ninety thousand (190,000) beneficiaries under the formal sector,for us to achieve universal health care coverage in the state we need to also get more of informal sector population in to the state contributory health care system",said the ES YSCHMA.

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