Why Nigerians should embrace health insurance-Akande

By Emmanuel Adeleke

The Executive Secretary, Oyo State Health Insurance Agency (OYSHIA), Dr. Sola Akande, has explained reasons Nigerians should embrace health insurance.

The OYSHIA boss disclosed this while featuring on a radio station in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, at the weekend.

Akande said, in this part of the world, people take everything about life seriously, but failed to think on how to stay healthy, stressing that the best way to safeguard one’s health is buying into the health insurance.

“In this part of the world, we take everything about life seriously, we run after money, positions, wealth, houses, businesses, send children to school abroad but one thing that we don’t do is to think about our lives, how can I stay healthy to be able to pursue all these goals?

“One of the things that can deplete whatever savings human being has is sickness because after life, your health is next. Despite everything we are facing in this country, Nigerians don’t want to die young. What are the conscious efforts you are making not to die young?

“God forbid, you are in a vehicle, there is a road accident and everybody is rushed to the hospital and somebody is asking for police report, somebody is asking who knows A, who knows B and somebody sees an health insurance card in your pocket, nobody is asking for police report any longer because that is an identification, a permit to be treated because a sensible medical practitioner will know that. With a health insurance ID, it means that person is covered,” he said.