BETTER HEALTH SCHEME FOR RURAL
COMMUNITIES AND THE LES PRIVILEGE
The social welfare situation of some
individuals like in the rural community and the less privilege in the urban
communities, town and cities is a call for concern. As population growth push up
the necessity and demand for certain social services is eminent. In this
regard, one of such areas is the domain of health.
Considering the over growing demand
for food supply nationally and internationally, the rural population strive to
balance the equation either by multiplying their labour force through the
reproductive sector or by multiplying their efforts. In that light, the work
force required to balance the equation is still not very sufficient. Majority of
the farmers rely on subsistence agriculture were farming is still not mechanized.
In this system of farming, farmers make use of little or no fertilizers,
pesticide, insecticide and what have you in ensuring a good and quality
harvest.
With all these challenges, the
strive to meet up remains a puzzle. On the other hand, the Cameroon government through
the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is providing grants, training
and technical assistance to farmers to boast their out put. Even with such
efforts, majority of the key farmers at times do not benefit from these schemes
because of lack of information or the inability to meet up the bureaucratic
requirements.
In such dilemmas majority of the victims
are the less privilege and the rural masses that constitute the bulk of the
agricultural work force. In that light, for this fraction of the population to
make ends meet, they require a double man power and in the process they are
face with a double jeopardy; families who rely in reproduction for labour force
end up consuming a larger quantity of their product and earning little or no
income while families that rely on amplifying their efforts ends up over working
themselves and sure the health insurance of these category of person carry some
question marks.
On such circumstances, while the government
is doing its best to design and program support schemes especially those for
the less privilege we make it our responsibility to inform and educate our
communities on such opportunities.
Within the health sector the government
of Cameroon and its partners has initiated a health insurance scheme which pays
over 50 to 75% hospital bills of its registered members. The scheme was perceived
to have been a great relieve to the rural communities and the less privilege
but ironically a large proportion of them are not aware of the scheme and if
they are aware, they are misinformed.
Today, Global Hand is taking the
challenge with recognition from administrators of the Mutual Health
Organization (MHO) to mobilize, educate, sensitize and to see to it that indigenes
from the communities register and are making use of the Mutual Health Scheme.
MHO
is a community based Health Financing Organization owned and managed by members
operating on principles of solidarity, pre-savings and risk sharing against
health related risks. With Mutual Health card treatment commerce before
payment.
Looking
at the benefits related to the scheme we are planning to see that we offer our
best to the communities meanwhile we are also looking forth to mobilize some
resources towards the success of this initiative.
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