Delta State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Nicholas Azinge, has said that the 405 primary healthcare centres in the state were being revived to form a base for the takeoff of the state Health Insurance Contributory Scheme.
Azinge, in a chat with newsmen in his Asaba office, insisted that the free rural healthcare scheme of the state has not been discontinued, saying it was being reviewed to make it more sustainable to meet the needs of the people.
Noting that all Deltans would be captured under the State Health Insurance Contributory Scheme, he said that the insurance scheme would form a platform for the administration of free healthcare for rural dwellers.
He said: "The rural healthcare scheme has not been discontinued but due to scarce resources, we have re-channelled it to get it subsumed under the new Delta State Health Insurance Contributory Scheme.
"In that way, if we can get all the citizens of the state registered, then healthcare will go to them instead of this system of taking healthcare to certain areas and treatment is not sustained.