THE National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) has revised its benefit package, with dental services and provision of spectacles getting the chop effective July 1, 2024. NHIMA has however proposed to include; eye surgeries, mental health, maternal health and chemotherapy treatment to the revised package. In a statement, Tuesday, NHIMA Head Public Relations Officer King Syacika revealed that the insurance scheme would also remove renal consumables and ophthalmic injections from its benefit package. “Notice is hereby given that Pursuant to Section 25 of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act No. 2 of 2018, which stipulates that; where there is any material modification to the benefits package or coverage, to provide a notice of that modification to the Public, not later...

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