The Ekiti State Government has launched a free healthcare programme for over 19,000 retirees.
The state Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Oyebanji Filani, disclosed this in a statement posted on X handle of the state government on Thursday.
The statement read, “Ekiti State Government has launched free healthcare services for more than 19,000 pensioners who previously worked in the State and Local Government Public Services.
“This initiative is part of the State Insurance Scheme, and it was announced by the state Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Oyebanji Filani #okeanaye, during a meeting at the Pensioners’ Secretariat in Ado-Ekiti.
The commissioner further stated the need for all pensioners to make themselves available for sensitisation, understand the process, and know the centres to access medical care.”
PUNCH reported in February that the Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, unveiled the N12bn Economic Relief Programme to alleviate the hardship being experienced by people of the state in the face of the current global economic downturn.
The Economic Relief Programme was said to include the payment of one-month salary arrears to state and local government workers totalling over N2.7bn.
The governor was also said to have approved the payment of two months pension arrears owed to state and local government workers totalling N1.5bn, as well as N100m monthly gratuity payment to state pensioners and an increment of the current N50m monthly gratuity to local government pensioners to N100m.