FEC approves incorporation of NYSC members in NHIS

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday endorsed the incorporation of youth corps members into the National Health Insurance Scheme. 

To this end, the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, is to team up with the Scheme to enhance social insurance administrations to serving corps members all through their one-year compulsory administration year. 

The Health Minister, Isaac Adewole, disclosed to State House reporters after the FEC meeting that the incorporation was gone for avoiding superfluous death among youth corps members in the nation.

"Council endorsed the notice that consequently we will incorporate NYSC members in the National Health Insurance Scheme in the nation. 

"This will ensure access to quality care across the nation, forestall superfluous deaths and furthermore guarantee our youth corps members get the most elevated

achievable level of care across the nation," Mr. Adewole said.

Mr. Adewole likewise said the FEC got memoranda for the reestablishment of the Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, on the acquirement and conveyance of contraceptives the nation over. 

"Committee got memoranda from the Federal Ministry of Health. One needs to do with the recharging of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Ministry of Health and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). This MoU needs to do with the acquirement and appropriation of contraceptives items the nation over. The government has the approach of free conveyance of contraceptives wares and administrations across the nation.

"We have restored the MoU today to keep going for the following four years in the vicinity of 2017 and 2020. What's more, that we additionally keep on providing viable safe intentional contraceptives benefits over," he said. 

The clergyman noticed that the legislature had formally pronounced the meningitis flare-up finished in the nation. 

"We have formally proclaimed the Meningitis episode over in the nation. We likewise educated FEC that we have not recorded new instances of Polio in the nation in 2017. We have recorded seven new instances of Lassa fever the nation over and the cholera incident in Kwara State has likewise failed out."