The Ministry of Health (MoH) is to roll out new health insurance policy for non- residents who travel into the country from July 1 this year.
Dubbed ‘The Visitors Health Insurance Scheme (VHIS)’, the policy, which operationalises the Section 2(b) of the National Health Insurance Act, 2012 (Act 852), will focus on non-resident foreigners visiting the country for less than six months at the initial implementation stage before being up scaled in the future.
The National Health Insurance Act, 2012 (Act 852) mandates the establishment of a National Health Insurance Scheme to ensure the attainment of universal health insurance coverage in relation to all persons resident in the country. However, the section 2(b) stipulates that persons not…