NOA Partners With KADCHMA On Grassroots Sensitization Of The Contributory health Insurance
By Femi Mustapha
National Orientation Agency (NOA) is to partner with the Kaduna State Contributory Health Management Authority (KADCHMA), in sensitizing residents of the state on the importance to access affordable and quality health care services initiated by the state government.
The state director of the agency, Alhaji Galadima Zubairu Soba, asserted this during a one-day engagement meeting with the National Orientation Agency and other stakeholders in Kaduna organized by KADCHMA on the 17th May, 2022.
Alhaji Zubairu Soba explained that the agency would deploy its community orientation and mobilization officers to reach people at the at the grassroots on the imperative of the scheme and how to access it.
The Kaduna State Commissioner Health, Dr. Amina Mohmmed Baloni in her remarks, described NOA as a strategic partner that could play vital role in assisting KADCHMA to achieve its objective especially in the area of enrolling informal sector into the scheme.
Dr. Baloni represented by the Director of Health Planning, Research and Statistic by the Ministry, Dr. Joseph Sunday noted that the primary objective was to ensure that people from Informal sector are enrolled into the scheme because of its immense benefit.
The Director General, Kaduna state Contributory Health Management Authority (KADCHMA), Malam Abubakar Hassan said the objective of the meeting was to orient the participants on the operationalization of the health scheme.
Malam Hassan maintained that, the meeting was also to discuss the areas of possible collaboration with NOA to create awareness to residents about the state Contributory Scheme.
He gave an assurance that, KADCHMA would continue to meet with stakeholders to map out strategies on how to carry out its messages to the residents of the state.
