Nigerian state of Oyo to introduce NHIS
(The Nation) - Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State yesterday said that his administration would soon introduce the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to the state as part of efforts to improve the health care delivery of his government.
The governor, who disclosed this while receiving the Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, who paid him a courtesy call in his office in Ibadan, also said that the Abiyamo programme being proposed by his administration would come on stream in the next two weeks.
He said that the NHIS scheme to be introduced in the state would be community-based and that all strata of the society would be involved so as to improve the health status of the people.
Governor Ajimobi also expressed his administration's commitment to the eradication of malaria which he described as one of the highest killer diseases in the state.
The governor said it would do the people of the state a lot of good if malaria was wiped out, adding that part of the efforts at eradicating diseases was the introduction of free health mission through which over 300,000 people had been treated across the state free of charge.