FG records 110,000 serving, retired Nigeria military on health insurance
By Urube Peter, Abuja
The Honourable Minister of State for Defence, His Excellency, Dr Bello Matawalle said the DHML has so far captured about 110,000 (One Hundred and Ten Thousand retired military veterans as enrolees on her database.
The minister said at an annual event of the Defence Health Maintenance Limited ( DHML), the Health Maintenance Organization HMO for the serving and retired members of the Nigerian Armed Forces, who has its 2023 edition of Interactive Meeting with the various Military Veteran Groups, with the theme: ” Advancing the health care of Military Veterans ” to consolidate on the gains of last year meeting.
Dr Bello explained that so far about 110,000 retired military veterans has been captured as enrolees on her database.
The Minister who was represented by the Director, Health Services, Ministry of Defence, in this press released by Wing Commander
AA OGBONDA (Rtd) called on all military veterans who are yet to be enrolled as DHML enrolees to key into the programme.
He further added that efforts is being put in place to ensure illnesses not currently included in the Benefits Package for the health insurance cover of the military veterans would be covered in due course.
Earlier, the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of the DHML, Surgeon Rear Admiral Azeez Bayo Afolayan (Rtd), In his Keynote Address noted that the meeting was aimed at sensitizing the representatives of the various military veteran groups on the Benefit Package available to their members, the necessity of enrolling on the DHML database and the eligibility criteria for prospective enrolees.
According to him, the first meeting which took place on 3 March, 2022 with 16 groups saw an upsurge in enrollment by military retirees with DHMl after the interaction. He further stated that DHML recently created the new Department of Care Coordination to further ensure seamless access to healthcare by the DHML enrolees in the various hospital and medical centres where they may be accessing healthcare.
Rear Admiral Afolayan (Rtd) also said the meeting was able to clear misconceptions on eligibility and benefits packages. He noted that the core mandate of the DHML is to ensure that all military personnel, both serving and retired, their spouses and 4 biological children below 18 have easy access to good and qualitative health care services.
It could be recalled that the DHML is a major award winning HMO, emerging as the best HMO of the decade at the 7th Africa Quality Achievements Awards in 2021 in Abuja.
DHML currently partners over 200 military Healthcare Providers as well as over 2000 civilian Healthcare Providers spread all over the country
