NHIF CHARGES TO BE INCLUDED IN SCHOOL FEES

The office of the vice chancellor Moi University is planning to incorporate NHIF charges in school fees. Subscription charges are only four hundred and eighty shillings. Annual charges are six hundred shillings. This occurs as NHIF fraternity continues to educate students on the importance of having an insurance cover with NHIF. This is evident in the sensitization conference held today from 2 to 4pm at the student center conference room.

Your parents’ NHIF cover will only cover you up to the age of twenty six years. This shows that most students in campus should have their own NHIF cover. The cover of your parent shall not cover your child. There are no refunds if the cover is not utilized.

 “You have to pay the amount required for you to be covered and there is no way you are going to demonstrate in order to have the price subsidized,” Mrs.  Yatich a health officer from NHIF Eldoret branch said after the students suggested that they should subsidize the charges for students as they are unemployed.

 Mr. Omondi the MUSO chair supported the idea of paying hospital bills whenever they are referred for further medication. On the other hand Vidah Juma assistant secretary general said that NHIF should lower the charges up to 160 per students as it was initially.

KESSES CAMPUS NOW IN MAIN CAMPUS

 






Just a hundred meters from the administration block past upper hill lies Kesses campus which was started last year. The building structures were meant for the school of biological sciences but now it has been converted to be a branch for school of education.

Students from the school of education are forced to walk all the way from their school to the so called ‘Kesses campus’. “I am really having difficulties in attending classes at Kesses campus, it is far and there are no pathways”, Ayub said. Ayub is a third year student in the school of education and suffers from limb paralysis. He can’t walk thus has to look for a person to push him on a wheelchair  all the way especially when there is a class immediately after another class in their school.  Ayub usually finds that the other immediate class at ‘Kesses campus’ is halfway and missing space by the time he arrives.

The students really encounter difficulties in keeping time as the place is far from their residence. They have to wake up early in the morning whenever they have a class there. Concentration level in class is also reduced as the students do get tired. Nobody knows exactly when the building structures shall be completed so that the real owners could occupy the place.