The Edo State Health Insurance Commission(EDOHIC) has engaged and trained marketing volunteers in Edo Central and Edo North to increase awareness of the Edo State Health Insurance message among residents of the state.
The Director of Planning/Searching Service, Dr. Owen Omorogbe, who spoke at the training of the volunteers said the engagement of the volunteers was to help canvass and increase the level of awareness of the Health Insurance Scheme, as well as its great benefits to the people of the state.
According to him, the EDOHIC set up by an Act of Law on May 30, 2019, has a mandate to drive the implementation of the Scheme which aims to ensure that residents of the state had access to affordable, efficient, qualitative and responsive health care.
He explained that the Commission had been able to aggregate marketing volunteers from Edo North and Edo Central to build their capacity with necessary marketing skills as well as information on selling the health insurance products to increase the Health Insurance uptake across the state.
“One of the major focus for us is that as we drive the achieving universal health coverage in Edo State, we need the average resident of become aware that this Health Insurance Scheme has a plan that is stratified and unique for everybody, irrespective of your social economic status.”
Dr. Omorogbe added that the EdoHIS was designed to ensure each resident of Edo State had access to best healthcare anytime they had need of healthcare without any financial stress.
The Director of Programme, Simplified System, an organization collaborating with the Edo Health Insurance Scheme, Deacon Okunbor Jonathan, said the goal of the engagement was to increase the number of enrollees among the informal sector, noting the present enrollees of the scheme were majorly civil servant and pensioners.
The EdoHIS team had visited the Igueben and Egoro Communities to hold stakeholders meetings with the traditional rulers and their chiefs, where they sensitized the community on the need to subscribe into the health insurance scheme.
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