Nakuru county residents have been urged to register with the National health insurance fund scheme as one way of mitigating the high costs of medication.
Nakuru health executive, Daniel Mungai, said that most of the county residents in the informal sector have not registered with the public health scheme.
Speaking this afternoon at his office Mungai said that NHIF was the best way of insuring ones family against health related complications.
“A big percentage of the people in the informal sector have not registered with NHIF and they are missing a lot because they are forced to foot all their bills whenever they go to public hospitals as opposed to those who are members of NHIF.I want to encourage all those who are self employed, those in the juakali sector, bodaboda riders, hawkers and matatu drivers and conductors to join the fund because it only costs sh160 per month the its benefits are huge,” he said.
Mungai said that the county government will collaborate with the NHIF to move from constituency to constituency in the county to encourage residents to register with the fund.
“We will embark on a drive with NHIF to encourage our people to register with NHIF and we will do this through baraza’s and road shows, in churches, funerals and any platform we will get,” he said.