In order to mandate the use of residence card otherwise known as ‘kaadi Igbeayo’ to the people of ondo state, the state government on Wednesday instructed all heads of government hospitals and health centres in the state to impose the use of the residency card in their various hospitals.

The state commissioner for information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju who gave the directive during a meeting with some public health coordinators at the Mother and Child Hospital in Akure the state capital, said the residence card scheme is not meant for money making from the people as being speculated.

 Adeyanju said residents of the state who have obtained the card, especially pregnant women and children from age one to five will hence forth receive free medical services while those without the card would be made to pay stipends for the medical services rendered to them.

“People must be made to see the need for the card. The residence card has become operational in all government facilities. The meeting with the public health coordinators becomes imperative so as to sensitise the head of facilities on the commencement of the card use. The Ondo State Government is not relenting in its efforts to providing free medical services to the people.

“What is operational at the moment in the state is that non-indigene who troop in for normal virginal delivery that people pay between N10,000 and N15,000 to do and Caesarean section are done freely, thus necessitating the influx of people into the state to access the services . Such people must be made to pay for services rendered, ” he said.

  Adeyanju, therefore, called on those who had registered for the card to visit their registration centres to collect them.