Community-based health insurance scheme commences in FCT

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration has commenced the implementation of community-based health insurance scheme to ensure that rural populace get unhindered access to qualitative health care delivery.

Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, FCT minister, made this disclosure on Wednesday after a meeting with some officials of the FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat in Abuja, revealing that pilot scheme had commenced in 60 rural communities across the nooks and crannies of the FCT.

The scheme is an upscale of the Community Empowerment Agricultural Initiatives of the Federal Capital Territory, where over 38,000 farmers income have increased more than 1,000 percent.

According to him, the scheme currently has over 8,000 enrolees including the principal as well as the dependants, stressing that the number would continue to rise until all FCT communities are adequately covered.

The benefiting community members pay N1,500 per annum as contribution, while the FCT administration pays N13,500 for each member as subsidy, he said, saying that static Primary Health Centres and Mailafiya Mobile Healthcare were currently servicing the scheme in tune with the Transformation Agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan.