EDOHIC Trains Volunteers  to Boost Awareness

Sunday Okobi

The Edo State Health Insurance Commission (EDOHIC) has engaged and trained marketing volunteers in Edo Central and Edo North to increase awareness  among residents of the state.

The Director of Planning/Searching Service, EDOHIC, Dr. Owen Omorogbe, who spoke at the volunteers’ training yesterday, said the volunteers’ engagement was to help canvass and increase awareness of the Health Insurance Scheme and its great benefits to the people of the state.

According to him, “The EDOHIC set up by an Act of Law on May 30, 2019, has a mandate to drive the implementation of the scheme which aims to ensure that residents of the state had access to affordable, efficient, qualitative and responsive health care.”

He explained that the commission had been able to aggregate marketing volunteers from Edo North and Edo Central to build their capacity with necessary marketing skills as well as information on selling the health insurance products to increase the health insurance uptake across the state.

Omorogbe added: “One of our major focuses for is that as we drive the achieving universal health coverage in Edo State, we need the average resident of become aware that this Health Insurance Scheme has a plan that is stratified and unique for everybody, irrespective of your social economic status.”

He stated that the EdoHIS was designed to ensure each resident of Edo State had access to the best healthcare anytime they had need of healthcare without any financial stress.

The EdoHIS team had visited the Igueben and Egoro communities in the state to hold stakeholders’ meetings with the traditional rulers and their chiefs, where they sensitised the community on the need to subscribe to the health insurance scheme.