Farmers in Ogun state have been admonishes to get enrolled in the government’s basic health provision fund in a bid not to be left out in accessing quality health for the overall good.
Senior Special Assistant to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Agriculture, Dr. Angel Adelaja-Kuye made the remark in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital during the 2022 Alake Roundtable Dialogue on Promoting Health Insurance And Improve Universal Health Coverage for Farmers by Wellness Africa Foundation (WAF) a Not-for-profit organisation in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Dr Adelaja-Kuye said the state government is leaving no stone untorn to make sure that farmers and market women and men in the state continue have access to the healthcare programme put in place by Governor Dapo Abiodun.
She disclosed that the programme for farmers attracts payment N10,00 in a year.
Stressing the current administration’s commitment to ensuring farmer’s wellbeing, the SSA Governor Abiodun will not relent in his efforts to make sure that farmers in the state live a strong and heathy life.
Her words “We are making sure that everybody is aware of the health care programme that the governor put in place for in Ogun State. This programme for farmers is N10,00 in a year. We have been sensitising farmers since 2019 before the programme started.
“They were (farmers) the first people we went to go and survey to know what are the kind of things they would like in this programme and the governor made it available to them, especially the farmers.
“In addition to that, we worked with the All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, we work with other farmers interest groups to make sure that farmers in their respective communities enjoy this programme and we are sensitising them. We will make sure that there is no stop that is left untorn.
“We also want to flag-off the primary health care centers so that they will see for themselves what kind of things they can access. All of these things they will access to are under this health care programme.
” We will continue to make sure that the farmers live a strong and heathy life and we will continue to make sure we find a way of making sure that our famers come to the programed,” she added.