The National Hospital Insurance Fund building in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG
The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) is set to lose a
lucrative tender of providing medical insurance cover to police and
prison officers at the end of the month, dealing a blow to
its revenue.
its revenue.
Both
the police and prison officers, together with civil servants serving in
the two units will from next month be covered by private medical
insurers. Police officers have over the years formed an important cog of
NHIF’s comprehensive medical cover from which it collected Sh12.7
billion worth of premium in 2017/2018, audited report shows. The tender
for the new cover advertised in January showed the cover will be
administered by consortium consisting of up to three insurance firms.
Director
of personnel at the directorate of criminal investigations Mwangi
Wanderi yesterday sent a memo to the informing police and prison heads
of the termination of NHIF tender. “Please inform all officers under
your command that NHIF will not be in a position to offer enhanced
health insurance cover to National Police, Kenya Prisons and civil
servants in the departments after 31st March 2020 when the current
arrangement lapses,” said Mr Wanderi in the memo.
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