The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has enroled 198,810 residents of the territory into its Well being Insurance coverage Scheme (FHIS) in a single yr.
Lere Olayinka, the Senior Particular Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike disclosed this in an announcement on Tuesday.
Mr Olayinka added that out of the determine, 10,065 weak individuals, together with pregnant girls have been enroled to entry free medical companies beneath the FHIS.
He mentioned that the FHIS had recorded vital enhance in its enrolment because the inception of the Wike-led FCTA, with greater than 100 per cent annual enrolment goal of 25,000 beneficiaries.
He defined that the transfer was a part of the FCTA’s resolve to finish maternal and toddler mortality ensuing from avoidable and preventable causes.
He mentioned that the enrolment allowed the beneficiaries to entry free healthcare companies in Major Well being Care (PHC) centres and all companies coated within the Primary Minimal Bundle of Well being Providers (BMPHS).
The spokesman recognized a number of the companies as major preventive care, screening, and first emergency companies.
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Others, he mentioned, embody secondary degree care similar to dental, psychological, eye, ear, nostril and throat care, physiotherapy, surgical procedures, laboratory investigations, and radiological investigations similar to ultrasound scan, and x-rays.
Mr Olayinka urged residents to register for the FHIS, including that free registration for weak individuals, together with pregnant girls, which commenced in February is ongoing.
“All pregnant girls who enrolled via the Primary Well being Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) Major Well being Care (PHC) centres throughout the six space councils within the FCT will proceed to take pleasure in free well being schooling, medical session and therapy, routine antenatal medication, laboratory investigations and supply,” he mentioned.
“Referral for secondary care, together with caesarean part, blood transfusion, and therapy of different obstetric issues similar to eclampsia in any respect the 14 Basic Hospitals within the FCT can be offered without charge to the affected person via the BHCPF,” he mentioned.
He quoted the Mandate Secretary, Well being Providers and Atmosphere Secretariat, FCTA, Adedolapo Fasawe, as saying “the FCTA beneath Wike had intensified efforts to fight maternal and toddler mortality”.
He added that Ms Fasawe, who spoke at an occasion in Gwarinpa District Hospital, organised to commemorate the 2025 World Well being Day, described the FHIS intervention as crucial to ending maternal deaths.
“A key intervention is the approval of free medical health insurance protection for all pregnant girls residing within the FCT and making certain that every one childbirth-related bills, together with vaginal and cesarean deliveries, are totally coated without charge,” she mentioned.
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“The initiative fashioned a part of actions marking this yr’s World Well being Day, beneath the Renewed Hope Initiative, which maintains a zero-tolerance to maternal and toddler mortality.
“In alignment with the Federal Authorities’s Renewed Hope Agenda, a number of hospitals within the FCT, together with Gwarinpa, Nyanya, Abaji, and Kuje Basic Hospitals, have been designated as Complete Emergency
Obstetric and Neonatal Care (CEONC) centres.
“These services may even supply cesarean sections freed from cost,” Ms Fasawe mentioned.(NAN)
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