Adamawa enrols 250,000 residents in expanded health scheme

The Adamawa State Contributory Health Management Agency (ASCHMA) has enrolled astir 250,000 residents into its healthcare scheme.

The scheme, designed by the authorities government, aims to grow entree to affordable aesculapian services by boosting information successful funding.

The bureau said connected Thursday that an ongoing campaign, scheduled to tally until April 15, 2026, is intended to prosecute section authorities employees and rise wide consciousness astir the benefits of joining the scheme.

The Executive Secretary of ASCHMA, Dr Emos Ujulu, who made the disclosures, said the agency’s absorption has engaged the enactment of cardinal unions, including the Nigeria Union of Teachers, the National Union of Local Government Employees, and the Medical and Health Workers Union, each of which person agreed to enrol their members.

He explained that the scheme’s benefits screen 95 per cent of illnesses, including surgical procedures, and that portion MRI scans, a high-tech investigative procedure, are excluded from the halfway package, the bureau covers 50 per cent of the outgo for the service.

He added that the wellness security strategy volition beryllium expanded to screen arsenic galore citizens arsenic possible, wi...