Harmonising regional health insurance a novel idea

Rwanda’s health sector is a typical example of what well designed and implemented government policies can achieve. Many countries also put in place what might at first seem to be foolproof policies but fall wayward for lack of political goodwill to see them through. The many initiatives to relieve the population of the scourge of preventable diseases would not have succeeded without involving the population, the premier beneficiaries. One of the most successful policies was the sensitization of the population on the benefits of affordable community health insurance, Mutuelle de santé, with different categories of people catered for. The most vulnerable are even taken under the wings by members of the community so that no one is left out.