Ortom signs bill for Benue Health Insurance Scheme, Polytechnics
Governor Ortom assented to the bill at the Benue Peoples House Makurdi on Wednesday.
The Benue State Health Insurance Scheme is structured to cover the formal and informal sectors, as well as the category of people who are vulnerable such as the aged, the very poor and the disabled who have no means with which to pay for insurance services.
According to him, the assent is only the beginning of the process and steps would be taken to secure the necessary regulatory approvals to admit, train and graduate people who would add greater value to the state.He, therefore, urged the Benue State Executive Council to speedily approve recommendations contained in the report on the polytechnics.
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