NOA Pledges Partnership With KECHEMA, To Promote Awareness On Activities

The state office of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) has expressed readiness to partner Kebbi Contributory HealthCare Management Agency (KECHEMA) in  promoting and creating awareness on its  activities in the state.

The Agency Director, Mr Joseph Yaro Machika made the disclosure while receiving the Executive Secretary of the agency,  Dr Jafar Muhammad Augie and his team during a courtesy visit to his office in Birnin Kebbi to seek collaboration of his agency in the promotion of KECHEMA's activities.

While commending KECHEMA over it's services to the people, particularly the less privileges, NOA State Director said the agency has enabled Kebbi communities to access medical services without sweat.

He said NOA was established to sensitize, mobilize and orientate the Nigerian public on various government policies and programmes hence there was need for stronger collaboration between his agency and KECHEMA for greater public benefits of the health scheme.

Speaking earlier, the Executive Secretary of KECHEMA, Dr Jafar Muhammad Augie said the  purpose of his visit was to partner with NOA towards educating the general public on the benefit of the healthcare programme and its mission. He observed that the agency was establish in 2018 with the mandate of ensuring Universal Health Coverage of all residents of the state. 

The executive secretary of KECHEMA said the agency's services was classify into formal, informal and vulnerables group but the  challenges it has been facing include inadequate awareness and non commitment of the formal sector in the programme.

The KECHEMA boss said the agency has agreed to the four thousand eight hundred as an annual enrolment fee to make the programme cheaper and accessible to all residents of the state.
Dr. Jafar noted that the agency is partnering with primary health care facilities in the state and providing referral services to patients with severe case at no cost.

While presenting KECHEMA'S guide manual to the NOA boss, Dr Jafar pledged to organize a statewide sensitization meeting with personnel of the orientation agency in Kebbi State.

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