How hospital claims are ‘draining’ insurance firms

Firms partner for bikers' medical insurance scheme
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COMMUTER motorcyclists known as 'Bodaboda' can now access medical services in case of injuries sustained from road accidents, through special service offered by Vodacom Tanzania in partnership with Alternative Solutions. A total of 750 bikers from ...

Dar es Salaam. The insurance landscape is bound to change, with more competition coming as the economies of the East African Community (EAC) members integrate, a prominent insurer has said.

Afisa Mtendaji Mkuu wa Sanlam General Insurance Ndugu Manasseh Kawaloka  Akitoa Hotuba yake Kwenye halfa ya Kampuni ya NIKO Insurance Limited Ilipobadili Jina na kuwa Sanlam General Insurance.

Kampuni ya Bima Niko limited Imebadili jina na kuwa Sanlam General Insurance Limited.Mabadiliko hayo yanalenga Kupanua Wigo Na kuimarisha uwepo wake Nchini Tanzania na Afrika Mashariki  kwa Jumla.Sanlam General Insuarence Itaendelea Kutoa Huduma Mbalimbali za BimaKwa Wateja Binafsi na Mashirika...

A Tanzanian insurance firm, NIKO Insurance, has rebranded to Sanlam General Insurance (Tanzania) limited as it seeks to strengthen its identity and expand visibility in East African markets.

Front view of the New Sali International Hospital opened in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Sali International Hospital has acquired all assets belonging to former African Medical Investment (AMI) Hospital which closed business in Dar es Salaam five months ago (May).

The hospital proprietors, Dr. Edward Tamale-Ssali and his wife Kate Ssali, apart from buying AMI assets, has added more modern equipments and moved to put up a state of the art international hospital at the same...

Donors to Tanzania’s general budget support programme include the UK, Canada, Denmark, the European Commission, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the World Bank. Photograph: Daniel Hayduk/AFPInternational donors have suspended nearly $500m (£311m) in budget support to Tanzania in response to claims that senior government officials siphoned off funds from the country’s central bank under the guise of energy contracts.
The chair of Tanzania’s public accounts committee, Zitto...

>Tanzania’s insurance dealers have failed to absorb huge potential of retail market causing decimal inclusion of Tanzanians in the insurance sector.

Jamal Kondo is a carpenter and a small-scale trader in Dar es Salaam. One day, he fell ill and was admitted at Zakhem hospital in Mbagala. Luckily for him, he had an insurance plan and did not have to worry about the high cost of healthcare in Tanzania.

Few people see the need for insurance until disaster has befallen them. It’s not until they end up paying for the cost of repairs or replacement of what they have lost, that they come to understand their folly.