Firm Offers Free Insurance To EHCON Workers

Mutual Benefits Assurance offered free insurance coverage to no fewer than 640 staffers of Environmental Health Council of Nigeria (EHCON) and 361 students of College of Health Technology.

Registrar of EHCON Dr Baba Yakubu,said this at the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Cooperation for Insurance Support Scheme between the council and the organisation in Abuja.

Yakubu, who described the intervention as life saving said the insurance coverage was to consolidate on the gains of the council’s rebranding process of the practice of environmental health in the country.

The registrar said that based on the MOU, the organisation would cater for medical treatment of the council’s staffers that had an accident or death in the course of duty at no cost to it.

According to him ,the intervention as a new dawn in the history of the council and a win-win situation..

“This is the first time a corporate entity is bringing to the council to offer insurance to the entire staffers at no cost to the council.

“We have looked at this as a solution to the major problem we are having because we have lost a number of our staffers in the course of their daily activities as a result of accident.

“This intervention will bring a lot of relief to the council instead of running helter-skelter in search of funds to settle medical bills of staffers involved in an accident in the course of their duty.

“So, the company will come at the critical hours, these are hours that fall between life and death, because if action is not taken between this period, one may lose his life,’’ he said.

NAN/Oyenike Oyeniyi