Know Your Limits, Osun Health Insurance Agency Advises Healthcare Providers

<strong><em>Executive Secretary of the Osun Health Insurance Agency, Dr Rasaq Akindele addressing healthcare providers during a meeting in Osogbo. PHOTOS: IGBINOSUN OSARENREN.</em></strong>

In a bid to foster good healthcare services and provide the quality treatments towards certain medical conditions, the Executive Secretary of the Osun Health Insurance Agency, Dr Rasaq Akindele has advised all accredited services providers under the Osun Health Insurance Scheme to know the limits of their knowledge and capacity.

Dr Akindele stated this at the rounding off of the 2025 First Quarter Providers’ Forum and Training on Basic Emergency care to OSHIA Accredited Service Providers on Wednesday at Abeere.

“What we are saying is that know the limit of your knowledge, if you are not an orthopaedic surgeon, what are you doing fixing a fracture, an open fracture, that is part of good practice in medicine. If it’s beyond your knowledge, you can call a specialist who is an expert in that field to assist you in that area, so you can have a good outcome for the patient”, Akindele advised healthcare providers.

Speaking about the impact of the forum to the services of the healthcare providers, Dr Akindele revealed that with the help of the forum, the providers were able to express their grievance and solutions were provided, also added that enrollees also expressed satisfaction over the services provided.

“The reason for that is that occasionally we have to come together with the providers, those who are giving our enrollees care and know the challenges that they are facing on the field so that we can come together and provide solutions to them.

“We get information from enrollees about what they face when they go to facilities, so want to know the side of the providers and what they also face when enrolees come.

“So we have to know the challenges they also face so that we can merge it together and provide solutions and move forward. The last time we had a forum like this we saw the impact on the field and Enrolees expressed satisfaction with what they got when they went to the hospitals”, he explained further.

<strong><em>Dr Johnson Odesanya, Medical Director of Living Hope Medical Centre.</em></strong>

One of the participants, Dr Johnson Odesanya, Medical Director of Living Hope Medical Centre highlighted some recommendations out forward to the Agency in order to improve more on their services. He urged the agency to negotiate with government in order to get more funds for the OHIS.

“One of the recommendations is that the Agency should try to negotiate with the State Government to put in more funds into OHIS. Through that funds, there will be more increased capitation to pay for more free healthcare delivery. There will not be limitation. In addition, to include treatments which are not under the coverage of OHIS, that the residents can benefit from it.

OSHIA under Dr. Rasaq Akindele has ensured that service providers have opportunities to contribute to the improvement of OHIS through this engagement.