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Contribute to Universal Health Coverage in Ekiti: Sponsor vulnerable person; Donate time; Donate a building; Donate resouces.
Attaining Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria should not be left for the government alone. We are soliciting support from individuals and organisations.
Medical doctors can donate 5 to 10 hours of their time.
Retired Nurses can volunteer some time to treat our members.
Local drivers can take our members to hospital.
Phillantropists can give us money or donate buildings for our clinics
Research Institutes can give us research grants for epidemiological study of our huge population.
The Scope of Support Is Limitless.
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Ekiti is Primed to pilot Community Cooperatives Combined with primary health services delivery
Regulatory enablement
In 2016, Ekiti State enacted a law mandating community based health insurance for all citizens, providing legal backing to belong to a mutual health association. The law still exists but cannot be enforced because there is no mechanism to systematically enrol residents for health insurance.
Our Model bridges this gap and provides the practical platform to enrol all residents of Ekiti and the law can then be enforced.
Systems Strengthening and UHC Advocacy Initiative
One of the barriers to UHC in Ekiti is the lack of a well coordinated, even compulsory referral system from primary health care to secondary health institutions. Anyone with any illness cam go to hospitals without any referral letter.
Our neighbourhood mutual health association Model bridges this gap. The patient will come to the clinic and upon assessment, be referred to hospital
This open, easy access, cooperative neighbourhood clinics in close liaison with hospital consultans will establish a referral system that will strengthen the health system.
Ekiti health system will function better by making it compulsory for all citizens to attend such neighbourhood clinics before going to secondary care institutions, except in an emergency.
We will provide evidence for advocacy of a compulsory referral system. This will make primary healthcare based Universal Health Coverage more easily attainable.
Alluring Charateristics of Ekiti
1, Manageable population size of 3.5 million requiring about 220 modules of our health personnel to scale up universal health coverage for the whole state. We are piloting 8 modules.
2, Strong PHC structures exist for collaborative working.
3, High literacy and civic engagement making the people receptive to public campaign for community contributory health insurance campaigns.
4, Ekiti people would be proud of the visibility of this pilot programme being conducted in the state.
5, Many citizens of the state are in the diaspora and do remit money to thier kith and kin back home for health and general maintenance. Our mutual health approach provides a cost effective mechanism to achieve their purpose.
6, Ekiti State Ministry of Health is committed unversal health coverage with which the pilot programme would easily align.
7, Ekiti State Primary Health Care Development Agency is very active in the state.
8, National Health Insurance Authority is conspicuous in encouraging health insurance enrollment in the state, particularly the community model that we have chosen to focus on.
9. Ekiti traditional anthem emphasises cooperativism for progress
10. Many citizens of Ekiti State already participate in copperative contribution in one form or the other, but currently not for health gains.
11. Ekiti has a large population of peoole in rural areas who would benefit from neighbourhood clinics near their places of abode.
OUR OFFICES
HEAD OFFICE
Our head office is located at 17 Abuja Quarters, off NTA Road, Ado-Ekiti.
email: dunnibram@gmail.com
info.hac@gmail.com
healthaccess@gmail.com
Tel: +2347059121111
website: https://hac.simdif.com
www.healthaccesscovenant.org
OTHER OFFICES
We have doctors's Clinics in our Pilot sites at Ijesa-Isu Ekiti and in neighnourhoods around Ado-Ekiti
PROGRAMMES
Community Health Access Initiative
We have offices in several neigbourhoods in our Pilot Local Government Development Areas. This brings health access as physically close to the people as possible. Each of the offices has opening hours when our health workers are available to enroll members and coordinate their health needs. The Health Worker enrolling the Member becomes the Key Worker for the Member. This bridges an existing gap in the health system where patients can be anonymous to the system.
Doctors' visiting hours when a qualified and registered medical officer will be available to attend to people, are also displayed at the Clinics.
This Model bridges the gap in the existing health systems where patients do not know the availability of doctors in their Primary Health Care Centres.
The rest of the opening hours, when doctors are not available, are covered by trained health workers who have ready telephone communications with the doctor. In essence, the doctor takes responsibility for the health and welfare of all members of the association in that neigbourhood.
All Members have open access to the Clinics. The first visit for Open Members is completely free when their basic biodata and health status will be recorded for future reference. Blood pressure, blood glucose, snell's chart vision, weight and height, urinalysis etc, will be recorded at the first visit without the need for any fee payment. This will be followed up by Medical Review by qualified doctors. The first medical review and one subsequent review are free of consultation fees.
Open Members can come to the clinic as many times as is required in the first month and will be attended to.
After the first month, the an Open Member will be required to pay the current membership fees to become Insured Member. This will cover their treatment for the year.
Insured Members shall be have a medical review at the Clinic at least once in a year. Those who do not keep review clinic appointments would be visited at home. This is made feasible by the clinic being sited within the neighbourhood.
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Health Financing Equity Initiative
All members pay the same membership fees although some members will be reviewed more regularly than others. This ensures equity of health access for members. The contributions of all Members are pooled to cover the primary health risks of all Members.
Assumption:
We assume that our services, to the extent that they are free, will be covered by donations and grants.
Critical Mass
For this initiative to work, each neighbourhood clinic must have a critical mass of registered Insured Members, both currently ill and currently healthy in order to avoid adverse selection. In essence, the target population of each Cooperative Clinic is every resident of that community.
