National Health Insurance Scheme seeks to achieve health equity among all Ugandans in the formal and informal sectors Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts have said that the public and the politicians that passed the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) bill which is touted as one that will enable Uganda to achieve health …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Save for Health Uganda [SHU], a local Non-Governmental Organization [NGO] that is promoting community health insurance schemes has failed to register its targeted number of clients in the Greater Luweero region due to lack of sufficient and reliable transport means. Save for Health Uganda introduced …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans will only make contributions to a health insurance scheme if they are guaranteed of getting quality service according to a new survey done by Save for Health, an entity that coordinates the informal community health insurance schemes across the country. Fredrick Makaire, the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Luweero district could soon be enrolled on the community health insurance scheme. According to Fredrick Makaire, the Executive Director Save for Health Uganda, a local NGO that is promoting community health insurance schemes in various districts across the country, the solicitor general has …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Impersonation, needless tests and prescribing unnecessary treatments are some of the challenges community health insurance providers are facing in their bid to provide cheap and reliable care to groups. Under the schemes, each individual contributes money ranging between 10,000 and 25,000 Shillings per head …
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