A specially designed Community Based Health Insurance Scheme of the Lagos State government is coming on stream in June this year.
State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, who disclosed this on during the 2017 Eko Health Mission conference in Alausa, Lagos, said efforts are on to ensure smooth take off of the scheme in the State.
His words: “Come June we will start the soft launch of the health insurance scheme. We planned to start sometime last year but certain things stopped us.
"We are using both private and public facilitites, that is why the modalities is taking quite a while because we have to get the technical aspect right."
Idris explained that participation in the scheme must conform to certain requirements.
" They have to be accredited. when accredited, we have to go and observe their facilities. The insurance agencies also have their own modalities.
"Let me say again, if anybody has a problem with the facilities, they should let us know so we can shut it down immediately. From now we have to start publicizing it, telling people what to do, how to go about it”, he said.
Scarce economic resources, low or modest economic growth, constraints in the public sector and low organisational capacity have created the need for adequate health financing systems for low income groups and individuals.
