Federal Government Commences The Enrollment of Corp Members for Health Insurance

The Federal Government of Nigeria has now commenced the enrollment of the corps members into the National Health Insurance Scheme

The idea of creating a governmental body to address health care concerns in Nigeria had its origins in 1962, but the idea was shot down at the time by government officials.

Alhaji Abdusalami Abubaker enacted NHIS into military law on 10th of May, 1999, but the Nigerian public had to wait 40 more years for the NHIS to become official.

Federal Government Commences The Enrollment of Corp Members for Health Insurance

The Federal Government, on Friday, commenced the enrolment of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

The insurance scheme, which is under the Group Individual and Family Social Health Insurance programme, is geared towards the provision of access to qualitative health care at no cost to corps members.

The National Youth Service Corps on Friday unveiled the enrolment of corps members into the National Health Insurance Scheme under the NYSC Group Individual Family Social Health Insurance Programme.

The organisation said the health initiative had been designed as a holistic health insurance scheme, covering the periods of pre-orientation.

The NYSC said six Health Maintenance Organisations had been selected from each of the six geopolitical zones to drive the process and ensure effective implementation of the NHIS.

The NYSC urged corps members to register under Health Care Practitioners in their localities.

The Director-General of the NYSC, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim, during the event, said the health scheme was the culmination of the presidential directive issued in 2016, which arose as a result of the unfortunate deaths of three corps members deployed to Kano, Zamfara, and Bayelsa States orientation camps.

He said the loss of any corps member provoked sadness in the NYSC, saying it leaves the scheme “highly diminished.”