400,000 enrols into Contributory Health Management Scheme in Kaduna State

A total of 400, 000 Kaduna citizens from across the 23 Local Government Areas have been enrolled into the Kaduna Contributory Health Management Authority (KADCHMA) scheme.

Dr Juliana Dauda B, Head Operations Department, (KADCHMA) said in an interview that, about 46,000 vulnerable people have also been enrolled into the scheme from across the 23 LGAs.

The scheme was passed into law in 2018 by the Kaduna State government to provide health care services to the residents at very subsidized rates and qualitative manner.

It led to the establishment of KADCHMA, with the mandate of delivering and operating the contributory health scheme itself.

“Right from the inception, since it was established, we’ve followed through on our key mandate and have been able to enrol a total of over 400,000 currently released to the scheme from the formal sectors, informal and vulnerable components of the population of Kaduna state,” Juliana said.

“Currently every Ward in each LGA of the state has at least one facility providing services for the enrollee which met service provision of equitable access for service provisions for citizens.

Dr. Juliana called on residents of the state to avail themselves of the scheme for the huge benefits they stand to achieve.

People are excited about the scheme but some have reservations about the scheme in terms of newness, people are skeptical in joining the scheme on sustainability, the premium goes by the economic status of most people.

The premium for an individual is N10, 650 per annum, and for the family plan, a family of 6 is N57, 950 per annum. So one of the challenges or the constraint to the take-up of these two by the informal sector is the premium itself.