The Yobe Ministry of Health has enrolled 920 vulnerable persons into the state’s Contributory Healthcare Management Scheme (CHMS). The implementation of the scheme, was announced on Wednesday by the health commissioner, Dr. Muhammad Lawan Gana, while supervising the enrollment exercise at Gwange healthcare centre. According to him, the healthcare enrollment exercise was to ensure that vulnerable persons have access to healthcare delivery services. He said the methodology of the exercise was to visit the vulnerable persons in their wards and capture them for the health scheme.
He explained that the enrolled beneficiaries of the scheme are entitled to healthcare services, including antenatal health care services and prevention. “There are also screening for non- communicable diseases, and treatment of minor ailments among others,” he said; noting that the health scheme covers the minimum requirements of individual’s needs. He said people under the scheme would benefit from referral services in a situation where their cases are above the limit of primary healthcare services.
