GARBAGE CLINICAL INSURANCE

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Garbage Clinical Insurance (GCI) is a micro health insurance program which uses garbage as a financial resource. With this program, the community pays clinical services by using garbage in an insurance scheme. This can make the community mobilize their own unused resources to improve health access and breakdown barriers between health facilities and community members. We open doors to health access. The main stakeholders are scavenger (waste collector), community, health professionals and health facilities. The insurance system with garbage gives a broad access to the community because almost every day every house produces garbage which is not used, so that all citizens can join the program(our customers). The active roles and participation of individuals and communities will determine the success of this Garbage Clinical Insurance. However, their roles must not be separated from health workers’ endeavors to build health awareness and knowledge.   The main principle of Garbage Clinical Insurance is organizing communities to create sustainable financing from their own resources in order to improve the access and the quality of public health program from the promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative aspects. On the other side, it becomes an incentive for the community to start a proper waste management and waste entrepreneurship from household level. To a certain extent, it also contributes to local sanitation improvement. Garbage Clinical Insurance increases garbage value exponentially, so Garbage Clinical Insurance empowers every individual to mobilize overlooked resources and take an active role in managing health financing.

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