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Civil servants seek new insurer after NHIF exit

Union of Kenya Civil Servants Secretary General Tom Odege (centre), Deputy Secretary Jerry ole Kina (left) and National Organising Secretary Ali Sokor during a press conference in Nairobi yesterday. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Civil servants have asked the Government to start the process of procuring an alternative health insurance scheme ahead of the looming expiry of their State cover.

The Union of Kenya Civil Servants (UKCS) Secretary General Tom Odege yesterday said that the announcement by acting Treasury CS Ukur Yattani that the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) is not authorised to provide private insurance cover would lock out 133,000 civil servants.

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