About 51,000 residents of Nasarawa State comprising orphans, almajiri children and the aged have been enrolled in the State’s Health Insurance Scheme. 

Executive Secretary of the Nasarawa State Health Insurance Agency, Dr GAZA GWAMNA, made the disclosure while speaking with newsmen on the agency’s programmes in Lafia, the state capital.

 He explained that the 51,000 vulnerable people who enrolled to benefit from the programme were funded by the Nasarawa State government and some private organizations. 

Dr GWAMNA commended the organized labor in the state for keying into the programme, noting that, as soon as deductions were made from the wages of civil servants and pensioners to fund the programme, they would commence accessing health care services under the agency.