Healthcare: NASFAT Enrolls Members Into Lagos Health Insurance
By Uchenna Eletuo
The Nasrul-Lahi-l-Fatih Society (NASFAT) Nigeria on Sunday enrolled it’s members into the Lagos State Health Insurance Scheme, known as (Ilera Eko) for improved health of the people.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos reports that, the event held at the Alausa Ikeja Central Mosque, was the flag-off of NASFAT’s Lagos zone health insurance programme to reduce cost of healthcare and health crisis and high mortality among people.
It further reports that, the event, where enrollees were counseled before registration on the benefits of the scheme, enrolled not less than three thousand persons, planned to capture members in other zones within a month.
NASFAT, an Islamic civil society group with focus on prayer, education, youth and women welfare nurtures members leadership skills to stardom for the common good.
In her remark at the event, NASFAT’s Health Services Secretary Dr Rukayat Ajibola-Bakare, said that a ”healthy nation is a wealthy nation”.
According to her the nation’s mortality rate is on the increase many of which are caused by treatable illnesses but because of cost of accessing healthcare by individuals people are hindered from getting good medical care to their health challenges.
“NASFAT is not only about religion, in any form we can be of help to people we make it. This health intervention in collaboration with the Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA) is one of the focal point of the organisation.
“It is much better we pool fund together from it we take care of unwell individuals in our registered health facilities around the state with ease.
“I am very sure this programme will improve the health standard of the people if everyone in the country should have access to such health insurance by two years period the nation’s high mortality rate will be reduced,” she said.
Bakare, a medical official, decried rampant mother’s death at child birth, especially in the hands of unprofessional birth attendants, called on expectant mother’s to avail themselves of the opportunity of the scheme to stay alive.
Speaking at the event, LASHMA’s Sales Manager, Mr Olukayode Ogunbayo, said that, the flexible nature of scheme makes it easy for everyone to register into it.
He said that, there were packages to suit different classes of people from N40,000 yearly subscription to N8, 000 and even N1, 000 for people to be part of the healthy Lagos project.
He streed that varying degrees of illnesses were covered by the packages to lessen cost for people and to encourage more people into the scheme.
Ogunbayo, commended the Lagos State House of Assembly for making the scheme a state act, said that the programme has come to stay in the state, tasked everyone in the state to register into the health insurance for a healthy Society.
Mr Niyi Yusuf, NASFAT President, said that, the organisation has been administering health programmes to members, but the coption of the state health insurance scheme was to broaden the scope and bring healthcare closer to the people.
Yusuf, tasked members to take good care of their health, said the organisation had paid for all it’s officials to be captured into the scheme.
(NAN)
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