No fewer than 110,000 retired officers of the Armed Forces have enrolled for the military free health insurance scheme.
The enrolees, who are beneficiaries of the scheme cut across all states.
The Managing Director of Military Health Management Limited (DHML), Rear Admiral Azeez Bello Afolayan (rtd), made this known during a one-day interactive meeting with military Veterans group at the DHML headquarters in Abuja.
The Veteran Groups at the meeting were the Nigerian Legion, Retired Members of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Association for Ex-Servive pension, Ex-Servicemen association, Ex-servicemen and Welfare Association Masaka, Foundation for retired Military personnel, Foundation for Care and support veterans, Coalition of Concern Veterans, Retire Navy and Air Force Keffi, Nasarawa State, among others.
Rear Admiral Afolayan said the aim of the meeting was to enlighten veteran groups about what they stand to gain by registering with DHML, in the area of healthcare delivery.
He said: “We are achieving this using our state offices that are spread across the country. Our staff in the office go into the remotest villages.
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Using the various veterans groups, they identify the veterans and educate them on why they should register with DHML and benefit from free good healthcare packages.
“From the NHIS guidelines there are diseases that are not covered, but on our own part here at DHML we try not to send any Veteran away because his or her ailment is not covered by the health insurance.
“We are trying to let the authorities know that there should be no exclusion list for both serving personnel and veterans,”he added.
The MD explained that what qualifies a veteran to benefit from scheme is to formally register with DHML immediately after retiring from active military service.
“On retirement they need to formally register with the DHML as the registration they did for health insurance while they were in active service does not cover their inclusion with the DHML,” Afolayan said.