The Senator Representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Smart Adeyemi has flagged off the Healthcare Insurance scheme for no fewer than 1000 pregnant women across the seven local government areas of the senatorial district.
Adeyemi while speaking at the flag off ceremony at Primary Healthcare centre in Lokoja on Tuesday ,said the intervention on the health of pregnant women was an effort to compliment what the State governor, Yahaya Bello is doing in the health sector in the State
He explained that the health insurance scheme will cover the pregnant women from the conception , antenatal, point of delivery and in case there is operation as the case may.
He also called on pregnant women across the seven local government areas of Kogi West to come out and register for the scheme where they will access free antenatal and free drugs for the period of nine months.
Senator Adeyemi pointed out that the next healthcare insurance scheme would be launched for aged people from age the 70 and above, noting that he was motivated by the fact the the State government had established Kogi Primary Health Insurance programme in Kogi State.
The lawmaker added that by October 2021, he will revive the School bursary for the students of higher institutions of learning in Kogi West.
Adeyemi also seized the opportunity to appeal to all the aggrieved party faithful who felt slighted during the just concluded All Progressive Congress, (APC) in Kogi State.
He appealed that everyone should forgive and forget, stressing that everybody must come together in the party as one family.
The Secretary to the State Government, Mrs Folashade Arike Ayoade, commended the initiative of Senator Adeyemi for having pregnant women on his mind at a crucial stage of their pregnancy
Ayoade therefore called on other lawmakers both at state and federal and all other political office holders to emulate the good gesture of Senator Smart Adeymi whom she described as the many of the masses .