Bauchi Contributory Health Scheme Targets 2m Beneficiaries

To provide accessible healthcare service to all classes of citizens, the Bauchi State Contributory Health Scheme Management Agency (BASHCMA), has planned to enroll two million beneficiaries in the informal sector of the economy of the state.

Our correspondent reports that the informal arm of the scheme seeks to drive a wider coverage targeting low-income earners, especially those who are artisans, farmers as well as other petty businesses.

The executive secretary of the agency, Dr Mansur Dada, disclosed this while inaugurating a 34-man committee to mobilise for the enrollment of members of the informal sector into the scheme in his office.

The committee, which is made up of BASHCMA staff at the headquarters, 20 local government desk officers as well as other relevant task officers  are saddled with the responsibility of expanding the informal sector of the BASHCMA programme for easy and accessible healthcare services to the people of Bauchi State.

The executive secretary said the committee is expected to identify the targeted informal population and engage them through the creation of awareness on the basic healthcare package of the scheme.

Dada added that members of the committee are also required to liaise with relevant stakeholders within their respective LGAs in ensuring that quality and satisfied services are rendered to clients as the agency will not hesitate to take action on any healthcare facilities found with substandard courtesies.