PENSIONERS TO BE ENROLLED IN NHIS …..PTAD

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD says it plans to introduce health insurance scheme for pensioners as part of effort aimed at improving their welfare.

The Executive Secretary PTAD, Dr. Chioma Nnenna-Ejikeme, announced this on Tuesday while fielding questions from newsmen at the venue of the ongoing pensioners’ verification in Kano.

She said the directorate was currently working towards ensuring that pensioners benefited from the health insurance scheme of the Federal Government to alleviate their suffering in accessing quality healthcare service.

Dr. Nnenna-Ejikeme, said the directorate was committed to ensuring that pensioners were treated with utmost care so as to give them the necessary comfort.

She said the essence of the verification was to get a baseline in which every pensioner that deserved to be on the data base was captured, after which his or her arrears would be paid.

ISRAEL ADEJUGBE