Individuals from the House of Representatives Committee on Finance have blamed the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for spending over N152 million on the acquisition of face veils, hand sanitisers, and defensive wears during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.
The plan additionally spent at any rate N2.48 million month to month on diesel to control its administrative center in Utako and the workplace add-on in Wuse II – both in Abuja.
The board of trustees had called a few Ministries, Department, and Agencies (MDAs) to a meeting to interface with them on settlements into the public authority coffers.
It clarified that the conference was to venture up the income observing activity in 2021 to support the public pay, in accordance with the protected command and standing requests of the House.
Shock and mistrust welcomed the essences of the legislators following an archive introduced by the NHIS containing the subtleties of its consumptions.
Part of the buys by the plan incorporated the inventory of 5,000 bits of dispensable face cover at the pace of N2,423,750, just as 500 jugs of hand sanitiser (500ml) for N2,423,750 on April 17, 2020.
From there on, the legislators brought up issues on the uses and mentioned a reaction from the NHIS Executive Secretary, Professor Mohammed Sambo, who showed up before them with his group.
With all due respect, Sambo noticed that the office gave more things under its social corporate duty regarding some friendly laborers on the cutting edge.
“On the immense consumption to tunes of millions regarding the COVID-19 things, we are National Health Insurance Scheme; we should be an essential buying organization by command.
“There was an arrangement by the Ministry of Health on Sectoral Response to COVID-19 and on the grounds that we are managing medical care offices, we as a whole realize that toward the start of COVID-19, a large portion of the medical services laborers deserted their obligation post since they don’t have things for their assurance,” he said.
The NHIS supervisor added, “As a component of our corporate social obligation, we distinguished first line associations like police, etc; we gave them those things and we additionally perceived medical clinics that have a gigantic enlistment of NHIS enrollees and we provided them with these things.
“Every one of the reports are accessible if the officials need them. Thus, this use isn’t prohibitive to NHIS. We have been coordinated to guarantee the assurance of our kin.”
On the acquisition of diesel, he clarified that there was a ton of unpredictable stock of power in the earlier year and there was a need to keep a cooling framework at their workplaces.
Sambo educated the officials that the plan had a tremendous foundation that necessary cooling.