3,000 NASFAT Members Enrolled In Lagos Health Insurance Scheme

3,000 members of the Nasrul-Lahi-l-Fatih Society (NASFAT) Nigeria have been enrolled into the Lagos State Health Insurance Scheme. The event was held yesterday at the Alausa Ikeja Central Mosque, Lagos.

The purpose of the initiative is to reduce the cost of healthcare and health crisis among its members. NASFAT is an Islamic civil society group which focuses mainly on prayers, education, youth and women welfare.

Dr. Rukayat Ajibola-Bakare, NASFAT’s health services secretary, remarked that a ”healthy nation is a wealthy nation”.

Dr. Ajibola-Bakare stated that the nation’s mortality rate was on the rise whish is caused by easily treatable illnesses due to the high cost of accessing healthcare services.

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“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). It is much better we pool funds 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.”

Dr. Ajibola-Bakare, a medical officer, had also lamented the rampant death of mothers at child birth, especially in the hands of unprofessional birth attendants.

Mr. Olukayode Ogunbayo, a LASHMA sales manager, stated that the flexible nature of the scheme made it easy for everyone to register into it.

Mr. Ogunbayo also said that there were packages to suit different classes of people from a N40,000 yearly subscription to N8,000 and even N1,000 subscription plan for people to be part of the healthy Lagos project.