The Akwa Ibom state health Insurance scheme has so far enrolled over 24,000 persons less than two months after it was launched to provide affordable healthcare services to all categories of people as part of the Arisecare programme of the state government.
The establishment of the scheme is said to have been informed by the dwindling funding of healthcare in the face of rising costs, poor integration of private health facilities in the state’s healthcare delivery system and the the excessive dependence and pressure on the government provided healthcare facilities as well as the inadequate condition of the state’s healthcare services.
