The
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Health Services Scheme has expressed
its readiness to provide affordable and qualitative healthcare services
to the workforce and other residents of the territory, reports the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The
Programme Manager of the scheme, Dr Evans Onyekele, told NAN in Abuja
recently that the social health insurance programme was designed to
promote and improve the health situation in the FCT.
“The
FHSS is a healthcare financing reform, or Social Health Insurance
Scheme, which operates on the principles of solidarity, risk-sharing and
pooling of resources,” he explained.
He
added that its mission was to facilitate easy and stress-free
healthcare financing through the pooling and judicious utilisation of
financial resources to provide financial risk protection and cost
burden-sharing for people.
Enrollees,
he said, will have the right to choose a provider, the right to be
issued with means of identification, and the right to easy access to
quality healthcare without hindrance.
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