Our Vision
A responsive and responsible government agency committed to ensuring universal coverage and access to affordable and quality health care so as to improve the health status of citizens of Oyo State especially those participating in various intervention programmes and products of the scheme.
Our mision
To facilitate reduction in out-of-pocket expenditure on health, provide financial risk protections and cost burden sharing for people of Oyo State against high cost of health care, through pooling and judicious utilization of financial resources and various pre-payment plans prior to falling ill.
about us
Oyo State Health Insurance Agency was established on 18th of August, 2015, backed by an enabling law on 1st of December, 2016. The law stipulates that health insurance is mandatory for every resident of Oyo State.
Oyo State Health Insurance Scheme was subsequently flagged off on the 25th of May, 2017. The scheme was designed to provide financial risk protection against huge medical bills, reduce out of pocket expenditure on healthcare, improve access to quality healthcare services for the residents of the State and to provide solidarity between the sick and the healthy, rich and poor, employed and unemployed, young and the aged as part of strategies for attaining Universal Health Coverage in the state.
Our Objective
To ensure that every resident of Oyo State has access to quality and affordable healthcare service
To ensure that all residents of Oyo State have financial protection from the financial hardship of huge medical Bills
To limit the rise in the cost of healthcare services;
To ensure that the poor and vulnerable shall be guaranteed basic minimum package as defined under the National Health Act.
To ensure equitable distribution of health care costs across different income groups.
To maintain high standard of health care delivery services within the health sector;
To ensure efficiency in health care services delivery;
To improve and harness private sector participation in the provision of health care services;
To ensure adequate distribution of health facilities within the State;
To ensure equitable distribution of health care costs across different income groups
To ensure equitable distribution of health care costs across different income groups.
To ensure availability of alternate source of funding to the Health sector for improved services
To in cases where residents do not have available medical services to take such measures as are necessary to plan, organize and develop medical services and other health services commensurate with needs of the residents.
