NYSC to review health insurance provision for corps members

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has unfolded plans to review the existing collaboration with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on the provision of free healthcare services for Corps Members.

This was disclosed by the NYSC Director – General(DG) Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim when the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Mohammed Nasir Sambo paid him a visit in his office on Tuesday in Abuja.

The Federal Government had in 2016, directed that all NYSC Corps Members must be enrolled in the NHIS.

According to the DG, it became imperative to prioritize the health needs of Corps Members through the instrumentality of the health scheme.

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He, however, reiterated the Scheme’s zero tolerance for night journeys by Corps Members.

On his part, the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof, Mohammed Nasir Sambo stated that the health Insurance Scheme would deploy everything within its reach to ensure that Nigerians have unfettered access to qualitative healthcare.

He hinted that the NHIS would consolidate on its previous achievements and also devise new strategies as it reaches out to all organisations in the country for the purpose of enrolling in the insurance scheme.

Sambo revealed that the NHIS is making efforts on how Nigerians on foreign missions would benefit from the health insurance scheme.