Lagos State government, through the Office of Civic Engagement and Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA), has enrolled beneficiaries of the Mother, Infant and Child Development (MICHD) Programme into the state’s health insurance scheme also called Ilera Eko.
Speaking at the event held in Ikeja area of the state, the special adviser to the Governor on Civic Engagement, Princess Aderemi Adebowale, said the enrolment of the beneficiaries is a major component of the MICHD programme and a strategy to build on the support given to the women while they were pregnant as well as sustain their access to affordable and qualitative healthcare services after delivery.
Her words: “The Office of Civic Engagement understands that to create a peaceful and safe environment where the government can
function optimally, citizens from conception to birth and through adolescence to adulthood must be given a fair chance to live, grow and become responsible individuals who are less likely to exert social pressure on the system.
“This is why Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration, in line with its T.H.E.M.E.S development agenda, launched the MICHD programme – a component of the ‘Womb
To School Initiative’ – as a preventive rather than curative security measure geared towards making Lagos safer by the year 2052.”
According to her, MICHD is a nutritional support programme through which nutritional food packs and supplements were provided weekly for indigent pregnant women across the 20 Local governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas of the state.
“All is set for the rollout of this significant phase of the audacious programme and I charge all stakeholders to use the opportunity of this forum to make a bold attempt at charting a veritable course of decisive action that will make the phase a resounding success,” she affirmed.
Princess Adebowale said the engagement forum also provides opportunities for partners from the public and private sectors to meet with 570 beneficiaries of the programme.
