Anambra Football Association has commenced the enrollment of over thirty football club owners in the state into the Anambra State Health Insurance Scheme to grant them easier access to cheaper health care services.
The registration into the scheme flagged off by the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Association, Dr Emeka Okeke, also covers the family members of the club owners.
He expressed the commitment of the Association towards ensuring sound mind and physical fitness of members.
Dr Okeke disclosed that during their tours of the twenty-one Local Government Areas of the State to reunite club owners as brothers, as well as inspect sites for the construction of Nationwide League One, NLO, standard pitch, he discovered the need to partner Anambra Health Insurance Agency to prioritize the health status of members of the association.
The Anambra Football Association Caretaker Committee Chairman explained that the exercise was to ensure that the lives of people who kept football activities alive in the State over the years are being taken good care of and guarantee them that their families will be in sound health too, while they are away for various sporting events.
Contributing, Mr. Dozie Okpalaugo the state Health Insurance Agency, contended that in line with Governor Obiano’s vision, the Agency tries to raise the bar at all times, to record achievements in all sectors and acknowledged that health is of great importance in sports as most of the sportsmen and women do not have access to quality health care.
Responding, Mr. Olisa Onuchukwu, who is the Director of Nnewi United Footfall Club, expressed happiness over the strategy of the Caretaker Committee which, he noted, clearly shows the visionary leadership of a young man that understands the essential interventions needed to uplift sports.
In their various speeches, the owner of Pope Johnpaul and Okpuno Football Club Mr. Onyekachi Obidima and Mr. Ikenna Osueke, of Ozala Football Academy, described the move as innovative as the association never had it so good
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