Civil servants in Nyamira County are against the new rates proposed by the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) claiming they are too high and that their union was not involved in coming up with the rates. Speaking during Madaraka Day celebrations, the executive secretary Union of Kenya Civil Servants (UKCS) Nyamira County branch, Mevyn Nyachienga said that the new rates drafted by the insurance scheme of between Sh 500-1700 per month were too high and unaffordable as compared to the previous Sh 320 per month. She said that it was not in-order for the scheme to ignore involving the union in drafting and coming up with harmonised rates that could not be a burden to the employees. She called on the insurer to revoke the new rates and go to the drawing board, sit together and consultatively come up with bearable rates. “We are not opposing to be covered by NHIF but we want to be involved as a union in order we come up with something agreeable and affordable to all civil servants because we are not all employed on the same job group,” she said.

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