ABEOKUTA–Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker on her part disclosed that the vision of the state government which would be focusing on the ‘Ogun Health Improvement Programme”, said that there are three pillars of Hub and Spoke model, standardisation of health facilities, health workers and their equipment and innovative funding, which includes collaboration with the private sector.
Coker who also noted that the ultimate vision of the present administration in the state was to provide an affordable and accessible and quality health care for every citizen of the state, added that the goal of the state government was to ensure the reduction of the maternal and infant mortality by 25% by the year 2023.
The Commissioner while noting that the state government would be implementing the Basic Health Care Provision Fund and the Ogun State Health Insurance Scheme, said the Basic Health Insurance Scheme which involves the Vulnerable, Pregnant Women and Children between the age of three and five would have access to free health care services across the twenty local government areas of the state.
Coker who further said that the enrollment exercise which already started across the state would see about one thousand individuals enrolled under the program across the twenty local government areas of the state in the first instance, added that the State Governor would be inaugurating the Ogun State Health Insurance Scheme which would accommodate the Formal and Informal sectors.
Coker also added that the state government is looking at developing a responsive and effective 24 hour ambulance service to support the health development program, added that the state would also be digitizing all of its health records across all the three tiers of facilities in the state.
