Pensioners and teachers in Osun State have commended the Governor, Ademola Adeleke, for his interventions in the state health sector, particularly in the area of Osun Health Insurance Scheme (OHIS).
According to them, frequent access to medical services, through their enrollment in free health insurance policies by the state government, has saved them from health challenges and untimely deaths.
Speaking in their separate interviews while reviewing the insurance impacts in their lives, the Nigerian Union of Pensioners, Osun State chapter, disclosed that Governor Adeleke has enrolled about 20,000 pensioners in the free health insurance scheme.
The State Secretary of NUP in Osun, Comrade Lawrence Dele Aina, expressed gratitude to the governor and OHIS leadership, saying, “20,000 pensioners were enrolled, and we so monitored the number and we saw that the number is correct. We are grateful to the Governor of Osun State because our people are really enjoying the services of OHIS.”
Aina urged the governor to consider other pensioners in the state who are yet to be accommodated in the scheme.
He described the healthcare intervention as timely, noting that life-saving surgical operations are now being accessed through the scheme.
“This initiative helps our pensioners very well, because before now, there are some people that are getting N350, N500, N750 as pensions before the administration of Governor Adeleke, and it made it difficult for our people to go for medical treatment, but when the present government gave us additional N25,000 to what they are earning, it gave us a sort of relief.”
According to him, the governor’s intervention has saved them from reccuring deaths that were being recorded among old retirees. “It even reduced the death rate of people, so we are thanking the Governor for what he has done, in addition we have to thank the OHIS, because we went there to complain that our well is not in good condition again, and they gave us free borehole which has been sunk and been in operation since.
So, we are thanking the Executive Secretary of the OHIS and his team because they all cooperated and they paid for the borehole sunk without demanding for money from the NUP, so we are grateful to him and the government,” the union said.
Also speaking, a retiree, Comrade Ayodele Timothy Olusegun, explained how he now frequents hospitals since his enrollment in the insurance scheme.
The Guardian
