Friday at the Municipal Palace of Delmas, Prime Minister, Evans Paul, in the presence of the First Lady, Sophia Martelly and several of his ministers, participated in the launching ceremony of the "Maternity health insurance for the informal sector" of the Office of Insurance Work Accident, Sickness and Maternity (OFATMA).

The Prime Minister took the opportunity to recall that OFATMA is a social solidarity fund initially created to insure employees of state institutions and enterprises recognized by the State. 48 years after the creation of OFATMA the administration Martelly-Paul has implemented a national insurance plan, including the actors of "informal sector", as well as those of small and medium-sized enterprises, according to the Head of State's campaign promise.

This new insurance aims to provide effective and comprehensive protection against the risk of accidents and diseases to the informal sector which brings together traders, artisans, artists and all those who are neither civil servants or wage earners and legal federation or association recognized.

This plan has four components :

- Hibiscus (3,500 gourdes/month) ;

- Orchidée (2,250 gourdes/month) ;

- Plan Rose (1,000 gourdes/mois) ;

- Bougainvillier (100 gourdes per month).

The first three plans are available to recognized associations and federations, while the last Plan targets vulnerable people with very low incomes.

The Head of Government has welcomed the extension of the national health insurance plan of the OFATMA, which shows according to him "the determination of the administration Martelly-Paul to fight injustice and social exclusion throughout the ten departments of the country."

HL/ HaitiLibre