The 22nd session of the Board of Directors of the National Health Insurance Fund (CANAM) was held last Wednesday in the Patronat conference room.

She announced that the Fund's budget was 75,063,000,000 CFA francs. The points addressed at this 22nd session of the Board of Directors included the examination and adoption of the minutes of the 21st session, the review of the status of implementation of the recommendations from the last session, the activity report as at 30 November 2020 and the state of implementation of the budget as at 30 November 2020. The program of activities and the draft budget for fiscal year 2021 were also on the agenda of the discussions.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors Professor Mamady Kane reiterated that the work is taking place in a particular context marked by the persistence of the coronavirus disease or Covid-19 pandemic, which has had a negative impact on everyone's life and on all systems at the social, economic and financial levels and has not allowed all the forecasts to be fulfilled at will.
With regard to the main constraints and difficulties encountered during the implementation of the program of activities, the President of the Board referred to the impact of the pandemic linked to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the non-membership of bank workers, the telephone company Telecel, the delay in registering and producing insurance cards due to the waiting for the switch to the biometric information system of the web service type (Activ Premium); the lack of staff for the registration and distribution of insurance cards; the slow speed of the connection, the instability of the interconnection network

For Professor Mamady Kane, the 2021 draft budget amounts to 75,063,000,000 FCFA in revenue and expenditure compared to 67,140,000,000 FCFA in 2020, an increase of 11.80%. The amount of technical expenditure is 52,414,537,841 CFA francs and represents 69.83% of total