Nemis database
“The status of the NHIF card can be searched using the unique personal identifier number generated in the Nemis database using SMS query number 2110.” Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang said all students with Nemis registration numbers could access medical services. The medical package covers all students in public secondary schools. It grants them access to outpatient services at the nearest health facilities, with plans underway to establish clinics in schools.
The principals demanded that NHIF should build and equip school sanatoriums, and employ nurses and clinical nurses to guard against exploitation of the scheme by private facilities. “We should guard against student absenteeism. We do not want to have cases where students are admitted because the hospitals want to benefit from the cover,” said Indimuli. Mwangi said the NHIF management had met with 650 healthcare providers to lay down procedures and modalities of ensuring smooth delivery of services to the students. The targeted three million students can, however, access services in more than 5,000 accredited medical facilities. Mwangi asked the principals to support the scheme, which was launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta to fulfill the health pillar of his administration’s Big Four development agenda. “I call upon head teachers to support us in this process towards the realisation of affordable and accessible health coverage,” he said. Finer details of the health cover show that students will benefit from outpatient and inpatient services, dental, optical, daycare services, and road ambulance and emergency air rescue services.
Courtesy of The Standard
