The Kano State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency says it has enrolled vulnerable groups, including hypertensive and HIV patients and inmates in correctional centres, into the state’s healthcare insurance scheme.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Rahila Aliyu-Mukhtar, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Kano.
Aliyu-Mukhtar said the agency had enrolled more than 6,000 vulnerable hypertensive patients across the state to help them access medications and investigations they ordinarily could not afford.
According to her, the intervention has contributed to reducing complications arising from hypertension in the state.
“We received a nationally generated report indicating that Kano State has reduced complications arising from hypertension.
