BEVERLY HILLS, August 21, (THEWILL) – As a way of bettering the living condition of the Kano state civil servants, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has signed the state Contributory Health Care Agency Bill 2016 into law.
During a short ceremony at the state Executive Council chambers, he declared that history has been made as the development is a fulfilment of one of his inaugural promises.
The Contributory Health Care is a scheme that among other things facilitates payment for medical and surgical expenses incurred by civil servants in the state, included in their benefit packages as a means of motivating them.
Ganduje stated that as the scheme is being implemented, private sector workers would also be incorporated, highlighting that it would be expanded subsequently to accommodate community involvement, so that access to health care delivery services in the grass-roots would be enhanced.
Describing the scheme as sustainable because its source of funding is assured, he congratulated the entire civil servants in the state, whose welfare would be enhanced, promising that a management would be constituted for the agency very soon.
Meanwhile, the governor has inaugurated a nine-member Task Force on Graveyards, headed by the state Commissioner for Environment, Alh. Ali Haruna Makoda.
He explained the state Task Force would collaborate with the state Standing Committee on Graveyards to improve their standard and to ensure renovation where necessary, as some of the final resting places were recently ravaged by flood and other environmental problems.
Ganduje appealed to community development associations to assist the government by embarking on dredging of culverts and drainages, especially those that traverse graveyards to check flood.
Story by David Oputah
