NBA Registers 1,000 Lawyers on GIFSHIP Health Insurance Platform

The managements of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) BOE /JHFSJBO #BS "TTPDJBUJPO IBWF formalised an agreement to enroll 1000 members under the group health insurance policy known as GIFSHIP, which means the Group, Individual and Family Social Health Insurance Programme.

GIFSHIP is health insurance that is taken up and paid for by groups, individuals and families not covered by other NHIS coverage platforms.

Eligibility and membership include, small scale enterprises with less than 10 staff, non cohesive groups of persons, such as associations, unions and institutions outside the Organised Private Sector (OPS), self-employed individuals, families and groups, retirees and retiree associations and Diaspora groups, as well as foreigners living in Nigeria.

As part of the initial engageNFOU XJUI /)*4 UIF /#" presented a cheque of N15 million to the Executive Secretary of the NHIS, Prof. Mohammed Sambo at the headquarters of the scheme in Abuja on Thursday to formally register 1000 members on the health insurance scheme.

Speaking during the signing of the MoU, the President of /#" 0MVNJEF "LQBUB TBJE UIF association is expecting to access quality health for

lawyers through the NHIS GIFSHIP platform.

“This is very important for us BU UIF /#" UP CF BCMF UP BDDFTT quality healthcare and we see the NHIS as one channel to achieve this. So we have started with 1000 of our members. It is just the beginning, we have over 100,000 members across the country,” he said.

"LQBUB TBJE UIBU /#" JT delighted with the partnership arrangement with the NHIS , adding that the MoU will ensure that programme is sustainable.

On his part, Sambo described UIF .P6 XJUI UIF /#" BT B landmark achievement for the NHIS which has been campaigning for more Nigerians to register under the health scheme.

He said: “The event of today is very significant in that our drive towards attaining universal health coverage is gaining momentum”.

Sambo said the development of the GIFSHIP insurance platform was meant to give everyone opportunity to join the health insurance scheme irrespective of where he or she works.

Speaking to journalists shortly after the ceremony, the Executive Secretary said that federal executive council has approved a proposal put forward by the NHIS management to embark on massive infrastructure development at all its offices nationwide and to ensure the deployment of information and communication technology devices that will become automated in the next few months.