Tanzania: Health Insurance Service Versus Voluntary Contributions

Tanzania: Health Insurance Service Versus Voluntary Contributions
AllAfrica.com
Medical expenses in many countries remain a common outcry affecting millions despite the growing demand for affordable system for enhanced provision of services for prevention, treatment and health promotion. However, the concept of better health for ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

IPPmedia

04 Nov

Contributions for school labs should be voluntary, says govt

Contributions for school labs should be voluntary, says govt
IPPmedia
In the wake of growing disputes, the government has directed councils in the country to seek consent of public workers before they deduct their salaries to fund the Presidential ordered construction of laboratories in public secondary schools before the end of ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Apr

Assets at risk as voluntary insurance products ignored

Awareness on the importance of insurance is low in Tanzania.

 

5 years ago

Michuzi

WFP LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL PASSENGER AIR SERVICE FOR HUMANITARIAN AND HEALTH WORKERS IN TANZANIA

DAR ES SALAAM – On 15 May, a passenger flight ferrying humanitarian and health workers into Tanzania is set to arrive from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. This is the first flight of its kind since commercial air services were suspended in Tanzania in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The passenger air service, run by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), is part of its global system to provide logistics support for the global COVID-19 response. The service ensures...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Feb

DC Lauds response to health insurance

Efforts to mobilise residents in the city to join community health funds (CHF) have been reported to be successful as statistics show that enrolment to the CHF has reached 26 per cent in three years, Tanga District commissioner Halima Dendego has said.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

02 May

EAC eyes unified health insurance

The East African Community (EAC) has commissioned a study on social health protection mechanism in the region before a harmonised system is considered for all the member countries.

 

11 years ago

Daily News

14 Feb

Ministry eyes compulsory health insurance

Daily News
Ministry eyes compulsory health insurance
Daily News
THE government is considering enacting laws that will make health insurance compulsory to all, as a reliable way of ensuring accessibility of health services by everyone. The Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Seif Rashid, said this in Dar es Salaam ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Jan

NHIF members fault pharmacists over abuse of health insurance

The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) subscribers here have asked the ministry of Health and Social Welfare to pursue legal actions against owners of private pharmacies authorised to provide health insurance services for what they described as misconduct in their duties.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Nov

Counties to be ranked on health service delivery

Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia has said the government will soon begin ranking counties based on service delivery at hospitals.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Jan

CROSS ROADS : Health service delivery gaps must be addressed

Media coverage seems the most important priority for the ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Children and the Elderly.

 

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