Agency Rewards Health Facilities, Workers For Productivity

The Bauchi State Health Contributory Management Agency (BASHCMA) has given the 2022 Productivity Merit Award to 23 health facilities, best three health desk officers in the local governments as well as 10 BASHCMA staff for their productivity and hard work.

Speaking during the award presentation yesterday, the executive secretary of the agency, Dr. Mansur Dada, said the aim of the award was to reward staff that  distinguished themselves through hard-work, efficient management of resources and productivity as well as those that showed high sense of commitment in the quest of the agency to achieve universal health coverage for all.

He said the agency chose the best primary healthcare per local government, and one general hospital in three senatorial zones.

He said, “The Bauchi State Health Contributory Management Agency (BASHCMA), like the National Health Authority, has started working and right now, we have three programmes and two out of the three programmes have started working. We have a vulnerable programme, specifically the Basic Health Care Provision Fund have started. We are in all the 323 wards in the 20 LGAs of the state.

“As part of the performance appraisal, there is what we call a punishment and reward system, so this is part of the award system which we established in BASHCMA.”

In his goodwill message, the USAID-IHP health financing advisor, Pharm. Khalid Kasimu, appealed to the Head of Civil Service in the state to put in the machinery to ensure the immediate commencement of deductions from salaries of people in the formal sector to BASHCMA so that they can start enjoying health services at affordable costs.