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School Health Made Easy

last updated Feb 25, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Bushenyi Medical Centre (BMC)
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
1998
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
All income levels

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Membership/subscription fees
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Donor, In-kind contributions
Funders: 
Uganda Community Based Health-Financing Association (UCBHFA)

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
<10
Number of Clients Served: 
a population of approximately 800,000 people
Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
3 health units
Summary: 

School Made Easy Scheme is a program that serves mainly school communities and in effort to control fraud, medical treatment authorization cards are issued to members while standard rates are charged and a list of all information availed to BMC so as to control escalation.

Program goals/rationale: 

The scheme aims at easing students' accessibility to good quality and affordable curative health care as well as encourage health promotion.

Key program components: 

The social composition of the population served is mainly schools, burial societies, coffee and dairy associations. A premium of Ugshs. 3500 ($1.4) is paid quarterly per student for a package that includes health education/ prevention care, out patient care which includes hospitalization at a health center, inpatient care, HIV/AIDS care, VCT and PMTCT, dental and eye care, examinations, radiography, maternity, family planning and blood transfusion among other services. This fee is collected by the scheme accountant through visits to the schools and the community groups. In addition, co-payments are made by the non-student members as they visit the centre, and this charge helps to cover the administrative costs as well as discourages service misuse. In an effort to control adverse selection, the scheme requires the entire family or school/ institution to enroll in the project entitling them to identification cards, medical treatment authorization cards are given to members so as to control fraud while standard rates are charged and a detailed information available at BMC to control cost escalation.

Program history: 

Bushenyi Medical Centre (BMC) a private health facility operates the School Made Easy Scheme which was initiated to respond to the school needs due to the poor performance in schools and absenteeism from class yet most of the schools are located far from the health centres and lack facilities in the schools themselves and the population is basically a peasant community greatly involved in agricultural production.

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