Muhammad Abubakar
18 November 2008
Bauchi — Twenty students with various forms of disabilities who are receiving training in vocational skills from the "Challenge Your Disability Initiative" (CYDI) have been registered for the National Health Insurance Scheme by a health maintenance organization, Healthcare International.
Presenting Healthcare International identity cards to the wife of the Bauchi State governor and founder of CYDI in Bauchi, the Managing Director of the company, Mr. Tosin Awosika, said the gesture was in support of the activities of the project in uplifting the standard of life of the disabled.
He said the ID cards would help the students to get free access to healthcare such as out-patient care, laboratory tests, drugs, hospitalization, specialist care, eye care and dental care among others.
Meanwhile, the wife of the Bauchi State governor and founder of CYDI , Hajia Hauwa Abiodun Isa Yuguda has presented a bill for a law to establish the Bauchi State Agency for Persons Living with Disability to the state House of Assembly.
Presenting the bill before the Public Service Committee of the House, Hajia Hauwa Abiodun expressed concern that a number of disabled people in the state were not being adequately catered for in the areas of provision of education, healthcare and protection of their rights as citizens. She said a survey conducted by CYDI at its inception in 2007on the blind, lepers, cripple and the deaf found that they required urgent attention in the state to make them relevant, calling on the state legislators to expatiate action on the bill to ensure that it was passed into law for the good of the disabled in the state.
In his response while receiving the memo from the governor's wife, the chairman, Public Service Committee of the House, Babayo Garba Dali, assured that it would be presented to the House for deliberation and passage.
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