…as Ekiti Health Insurance Scheme seeks for partnership
As part of measures to achieve the objectives of the C-19RM/RSSH Grant, another fifteen primary health facilities in Ekiti State have been allocated to the various Community Based Organizations, CBOs engaged for the project.
The CBOs are expected to reach out to necessary stakeholders, members of communities and cooperate bodies on the need to take ownership of the health facilities in their areas and render assistance for their sustenance.
The new facilities allocated to the CBOs are also located within the already selected local governments for the first phase of the C-19RM/RSSH Grant which are Oye, Ikole, Ijero, Ado and Irepodun/Ifelodun.
Speaking at the coordination meeting of the CBOs, held in Ado Ekiti, the Executive Director, Environmental Development and Family Health Organisation, Sir Olu Ogunrotimi urged the CBOs to continue to work in line with the specified rules of the project.
Sir Ogunrotimi noted that the project had yielded positive results adding that members of the public are beginning to show better interest in the sustenance of health facilities in their areas.
Also, the Programme Officer for the project, Mrs Funke Omojola commended the CBOs for the various successes recorded so far.
In their various reports, the CBOs expressed happiness over their success stories with a promise to do more towards recording better success in the new facilities allocated to them to work on.
Delivering a lecture at the meeting the General Manager, Ekiti State Health Insurance Scheme, Dr Adetoye Rufus represented by Mr Oluwabunmi Ogundero and Mrs Aregbesola Gbeniso Mary spoke on the importance of subscribing to the scheme.
Dr. Rufus sought the collaboration of the CBOs to create awareness on the importance of the scheme.