"COMMUNITY BASED HEALTH INSURANCE PRACTICE/ENROLLMENT AND CHALLENGES IN ETHIOPIA CASE OF OROMIYA REGIONAL STATE RURAL COMMUNITY OF ALELTU DISTRICT''.

This study examines the Community based health insurance Enrollment/practice & challenges in
Ethiopia by taking Aleltu district as case of study. The study, with the prime objectives of to find
out & mention the roots of problems & was geared towards answering key research questions
germane in enrollment of the CBHI in the Aleltu woreda.
Primary data have been collected from beneficiary’s (members) of CBHI by taking 150
respondents from five Gandas namely Maru, Mikawa, S/sageda, Ejersa & W/dera using
structured self-administer questioner. Three employees of CBHI were contacted for in-depth
interview & one manager of CBHI Finfine branch also has been contacted for triangulation
purpose. The data were putted in SPSS version 21 in order to get descriptive statistics or result.
The Qualitative data collected via in-depth interviews & open ended questions were analyzed
through transcription in to micro-soft word processing then by categorizing & coding on their
theme.
The result, of the analysis shows that supply side challenges such as Lack of skilled man power
in handling the CBHI in the woreda, Lack of budget to perform the enrollment rate of CBHI in
different villages of Aleltu, Absence of available nearest government hospitals at the distract
level, lack of enough man power because, Absence of digital camera in order to take the photo of
households during their membership, Absence of enough computers & printers (In order to
encoding the file of each members), the office is not covenant (narrow in size), the government
health service is not satisfactory like the private health sectors therefore peoples prefer to a
place where good service is provided.