The Yobe State government has announced the enrollment of 70,000 residents in its 2022 Expanded Free Healthcare Delivery (EFHD) scheme across the state.
50,000 of the enrollees are vulnerable persons affected by the Boko Haram terrorism that claimed many lives and property.
Unfolding, the healthcare scheme at the weekend, in Damaturu, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mohammed Gana, disclosed that the scheme was aimed at harmonising the free healthcare delivery programme to the people.
According to him, the scheme is implemented under the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF).
“It is a free drugs revolving scheme with equity for our 50,000 vulnerable persons affected by insurgency, who are unable to afford healthcare services at the grassroots.
“The expanded scheme is essentially about bringing all our free healthcare services under an umbrella of delivering services to the people.”
In sustaining the scheme, he said the state government paid 3.25 per cent of civil servants’ medical bills under the formal sector contributory programme in 2020.
