The Osun Health Insurance Agency has enrolled 206,659 residents to relieve them of financial burden on health expenditure.
The chairman of the agency, Adeoye Adelakun, disclosed this to journalists at the Osun NUJ Correspondent Chapel in Osogbo on Tuesday.
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This was disclosed on Tuesday by the Chairman of the Governing Board, Osun Health Insurance Agency (OSHIA), Adeoye Adelakun, while speaking with journalists in Osogbo.
Adelakun said it took dedication and focus on the part of the governing board as well as support from the state government to achieve the feat.
According to him, a total of 206,650 beneficiaries are currently on the scheme with 89,148 of the number being public servants, 39,530 of them are the principals while 49,618 are the dependants.
He said the figure did not include 30,420 vulnerable beneficiaries who received treatments free of charge under the scheme.
Adelakun said despite its short lifespan, OHIS had taken giant strides by excelling in all developmental parameters used to rate Health Insurance Schemes in the country.
The chairman who noted that 102 public and private service providers including 332 Primary Health Care Centres had been accredited by the agency, said the standard of participating hospitals had improved through quality control inspection.
He added that the scheme caters to four categories of people in both the formal and informal sectors as well as students in tertiary institutions and inmates at government orphanages and correctional centers.
Adelakun further explained that an additional 30,420 vulnerable persons drawn from Ministry of Youths and Sports and Osun Waste Management Agency would soon come on board the scheme.
Also speaking, the Executive Secretary of OSHIA, Dr Adeniyi Oginni, said the Agency had regularly paid capitation and fees for services received at the facilities, noting that the fees usually got paid first week of every month.
He also said that the Agency had engaged in the procurement and distribution of ICT support and Health Information Management System to 16 OSHIA accredited government hospitals.
Oginni revealed further that the Agency had a strict monitoring mechanism, put in place to ensure that participating facilities complied with international best practices while giving their best to the enrollees.
The Osun Health Insurance Scheme (OHIS) which took off in November 2018 has been rated second best in Nigeria.
