NHIS Gives Corps Members Medical Cover

The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) says it has concluded plans to provide health/medical care cover for serving National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) corps members in Osun.

The Director of NHIS, Osun Office, Mr Hamed Yahaya made this known at the Osogbo Township Stadium,during the NHIS enrollment sensitisation exercise organised for corps members serving in Osun.

The medical cover is tagged, Group, Individual, Family, Social Health Insurance Programme GIFSHIP.

 Mr Yahaya explained that the NHIS, which commenced operations in 2005 would now be providing medical/health cover for active corps members serving across the country adding that the corps members in Osun are lucky to be part of the first set of beneficiaries of the NHIS-NYSC corps members health care cover.

The Osun NHIS Director hinted that the health insurance enrollment sensitisation for corps members in the state commenced on Wednesday covering the three NYSC zones of Ilesa,Ile-Ife,Ikirun Osogbo being the last zone.

In a presentation, a moderator from NHIS, Mrs Sekinat Yusuf explained that the GIFSHIP was to ensure every mobilised and serving corps member had access to good health care service.

She said following unfortunate reports in 2016 about the death of some corps members due to health related issues, President Muhammadu Buhari directed the inclusion of NYSC corps members under NHIS coverage.

Mrs Yusuf highlighted the process and procedure the corps members would follow to get registered for the health insurance programme, adding that once they are registered, they no longer pay for medical treatment received from their chosen health care providers/hospitals.

She, however, added that the GIFSHIP only covered the corps members while still serving and that the coverage ends three weeks after their service year and whosoever wants to continue using the insurance package would need to pay for it. 

Earlier, the NYSC South West Office, representative, Mr Oluwole Amusan, congratulated the corps members in Osun State for being part of the first set of beneficiaries of the NHIS insurance scheme.

Mr Amusan said though the NYSC had several welfare packages for their corps members, the present batches of corps members were lucky to be the first set of enrollees for the NHIS-NYSC healthcare package.

Adenitan Akinola