By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu –
Yobe State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency (YSCHMA) on Saturday flagged off one month mass social mobilisation campaign with Keke Napep Riders Association using strategic and targeted messaging for wider public.
Flagging off the campaign in Damaturu, the Executive Secretary of YSCHMA, Dr Babagana Tijjani, said the campaign was part of the comprehensive strategic plan to enrol the informal sector into the contributory health scheme in the state.
He added that it was part of other engagements which was intended to serve as a major drive towards achieving universal health coverage across the state.
Tijani also disclosed that the formal sector programme was a health priority agenda of Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni to ensure self-employed groups in the state are provided with affordable and qualitative healthcare under the current contributory healthcare arrangement of the state government.
“The informal sector programme in Yobe state will target self employed groups that include – market association, association of commercial cyclists, NUTRW, all farmers associations, cattle breeders association and Miyatti Allah association.
“Others are association of GSM phones repairs, butchers association, fish sellers association, market women association and organised civil organisation respectively”, Tijani said.
He further commended the commitment of Governor Buni in providing people-centered healthcare service delivery and building a more sustainable healthcare financing mechanism by ensuring that all individuals and communities received the health services they need without hardship.
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