The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has reiterated its determination to review the existing collaboration with the National Health Insurance Scheme on the provision of free healthcare services for Corps Members.
A statement signed by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, Tuesday in Abuja, the Director General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim stated this while playing host to the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Mohammed Nasir Sambo in his office.
The collaboration between the two establishments dated back to 2016 at the instance of the Federal Government which directed that all Corps Members must be enrolled in the NHIS.
The DG, who used the opportunity of the visit to restate the Scheme’s zero tolerance for night journeys by Corps Members stressed the need for urgent attention to be given to the health needs of Corps Members through the instrumentality of the health scheme.
The Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof, Mohammed Nasir Sambo in his presentation congratulated General Ibrahim on his appointment as 18th Chief Executive of the NYSC.
He commended the NYSC Management for its untiring efforts in preventing unqualified persons from participating in the National Service Corps programme with some attendant negative consequences.
The NHIS Chief Executive stated that the National 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 device 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.
