GoHealth to provide medical coverage for travellers, stakeholders
By Ben Ngwakwe, Gombe
The Gombe State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency (GoHealth), is set to ensure travellers and road commuters in Gombe enjoyed adequate insurance coverage against accidents, medical emergencies and other health challenges.
Also, contributory health scheme is a social security system that guarantees the provision of quality health care services to all beneficiaries from funds created by pooling the contributions of participants.
GoHealth is a state-owned social health programmes initiated by Gombe State Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya in order to address health care challenges and is being manned by Gombe State contributory Healthcare Management Agency.
Speaking at the Sensitisation visit by a team of GoHealth staff led by the leader of the Agency, Dr Abubakar Musa, in Gombe, he explained that the scheme is a means of enduring all people have access to needed health services when they need it without having to pay for the services out of their pockets.
The GoHealth is partnering with Gombe State Transport Service, the Sole Administrator of the Agency, Alhaji Usman Kamara, disclosed that partnering with the Agency was imperative so as to reduce the burden of treating accidents and medical emergency cases among commuters on the road.
He revealed that it has caused a huge financial burden on the Company. He also requested that there were several casual staff already working with the company who would like to enroll in the GoHealth scheme.
Musa who is the managing Director of the Agency assured the Management of Gombe Line of the commitment of GoHealth to ensuring access to quality healthcare for all.
He lauded the Sole administrator for his deep insight, describing Kamara, as one of the key contributors in the actualisation of the GoHealth scheme.
The leader of the team added that GoHealth has a large network base, and is associated with several State Contributory Healthcare Schemes across the country, adding that such endeavour is timely while the Agency would work on modalities for it as stipulated in their scheme of work to achieve the collective interest of the people.
He explained further that the organised private sector programme of the Agency, where the employer and employee both contribute 7% of the gross monthly salary, hence making them to enjoy seamless healthcare access at all times without hindrances.
Accordingly, the GoHealth Team presented fliers, posters and other educational materials to the Management of Gombe Line, and assured them of continued cooperation of the agency with the management of Gombe line transport.
