Ivory Coast Establishes Mobile Enrollment Centers In Order To Provide Universal Healthcare

This month, Ivory Coast opened mobile enrollment centers for its universal health care program. The program has drawn criticism since it was introduced in 2019 due to challenges with benefit access.Samuel Touffet is disappointed after visiting the mobile center to receive an update on the program’s coverage.

“I’m not really pleased with the card. There are a lot of pharmacies where using the card is not accepted.Additionally, the hospital tells us the card is invalid when we bring it in. Thus, we are unsure of the card’s actual value.

Bruno Agnissan is uncertified and possesses a Universal Health Card, but he visited a mobile enrolment center in Abidjan to inquire about its usage.

“No, this is only for civil servants,” the drugstore stated when I showed them the voucher when we went there. that it won’t be effective for each of us separately.

He claims that because the hospital ran short of one of the medications required for the therapy, treating his son’s straightforward case of malaria became difficult under the program.

He claims he was unable to locate a drugstore that would accept the voucher after being instructed to get the medication at a nearby pharmacy and given a voucher that should have covered the cost.