Prof Ogbulu (with mic) during the MoU signing ceremony
Abia varsity signs MoU with HCI to provide health insurance policy for students
[From BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia]
Management of Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Lagos-based Health Care International (HCI) Limited that would enable students of the institution to access healthcare services of global standard.
The MoU contains a domesticated health insurance policy for students of the institution, which provides for prompt and effective administration of healthcare services.
ABSU management explained that HCI got the nod as the preferred Health Management Organization (HMO) following its track records in other higher institutions and corporate organizations across the country in delivering effective health services to students in diverse health areas and across locations.
At the MoU signing ceremony, ABSU Vice Chancellor, Distinguished Professor Onyemachi Ogbulu, expressed joy that the process leading to the selection of the HMO has come to a conclusion with the unique feature of domesticating a health insurance policy for students of the institution.
The Vice Chancellor advised HCI to engage the students regularly to discover their peculiar needs for effective health delivery, adding that life is a risk, while the health insurance policy would minimize such risk, particularly for the students.
Ogbulu thanked the Senator Adolphus Wabara-led Governing Council for making the scheme to be realized during his administration after many consultations and interviews over the years through their support and approval of the scheme.
Acting Managing Director of HCI limited, Osumah A. I, in his remarks, thanked the ABSU Vice Chancellor and Management for selecting his organization as the HMO of the University.
Osumah assured ABSU that HCI would deliver beyond their terms of reference, to encourage students, who are leaders of tomorrow to domesticate the health care policy in various leadership positions they may occupy in future.
Present at the signing of the MOU were members of Management, Dean, Student affairs, Medical Director and legal officers of the University, as well as the Students Union Government and Students Representative Council executives of the University.
