Over 150,000 Kano civil servants registered for contributory healthcare scheme

No fewer than 150, 219 Kano state civil servants have registered forstate contributory healthcare scheme known as Taimakekeniya. A member of the Governing Board of Kano State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency, Alhaji Shu’aibu Ahmed Indabawa made the disclosure during a monitoring visit to State Universal Basic Education Board, Gwale Local Government Area of the state. […]

No fewer than 150, 219 Kano state civil servants have registered forstate contributory healthcare scheme known as Taimakekeniya.

A member of the Governing Board of Kano State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency, Alhaji Shu’aibu Ahmed Indabawa made the disclosure during a monitoring visit to State Universal Basic Education Board, Gwale Local Government Area of the state.

The visit was aimed at assessing the progress made on registration of Kano state civil servants into the scheme.

Indabawa is also the deputy zonal coordinator of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in-charge of North West Zone B, comprising Kano, Jigawa & Katsina states.

Responding to questions asked by some workers on why Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital and Muhammad Abdullahi Wase hospital were excluded, Indabawa said that “AKTH has about 40,000 Federal Civil Servants and their families attending the facility, hence the hospital cannot accomodate more people.

“Mohammed Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital, on other hand has over 16,000 Federal Civil Servants and their families attending the facility and about 12,000 Kano State employees have chosen the hospital making it 28,000 enrollees for both the NHIS and Taimakekeniya which is the highest capacity it can take at the moment. This necessitated the agency to block the facility.” he added.

He reiterated that the agency would ensure that the state workers did not register with hospitals where they could not access good healthcare service delivery.

“The agency is therefore advising workers to choose other hospitals in the state in order to have easy access to healthcare whenever the need arises. However, if there is need for secondary care, they can be referred to either the AKTH or Abdullahi Wase hospitals.” he said.

On speculation that only malaria is covered, the deputy zonal coordinator said that the state workers were entitled to two levels of care (primary and secondary), calling on the beneficiaries to go through the pamphlets containing the benefits package of the scheme given to them during registration exercise.

He said arrangement was on top gear to commence the scheme next month.