Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has approved N500 million as the counterpart payment for 2024 to the State Health Insurance Agency (NASHIA).
This was disclosed by the commissioner for health, Dr Gaza Gwamna, during the flag-off of the enrolment exercise for judiciary staff yesterday in Lafia.
He said out of the fund, N250 million has already been released to the agency in a bid to ensure that enrollees have unhindered access to healthcare services in all facilities in the state.
He said the balance of the approved sum will soon be released.
LEADERSHIP reports that the state government had in 2019 initiated the scheme with the aim of providing quality and affordable health services to the people.
The agency’s top official disclosed that as at the end of September 2023, 188, 300 residents had enrolled in the scheme and were benefiting from healthcare services from various medical facilities across the state.
The beneficiaries, it was gathered, were registered under different packages such as public sector, informal sector, vulnerable and students among others.
Gwamna said only three per cent were still being deducted from the salaries of civil servants in the state to add to the counterpart payment by the state government.
