Nigerian entertainment industry to hold first health insurance convention

The Nigeria Entertainment Industry Health Insurance convention is a child of necessity inspired by the Nigerian entertainment industry’s lack of a unified form of health insurance policy and the near complete ignorance of it which has led to the untimely and unavoidable deaths of several prominent entertainers in the music and movie industries alike.

Amidst the perceived and misconstrued stupendous wealth on display, most of them later resort to the very degrading act of “public begging” to raise large sums of money for their medical bills when the tides turn. Thus, the need to stage the first ever entertainment industry health insurance convention with intent to introduce health insurance policies and its benefits to the Nigerian entertainment industry and the society at large.

The Nigerian Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Convention is designed as a customized learning and education platform for the practitioners of the entertainment industry and invariably members of the public at large to understand the importance of health insurance and at the same time embrace it.

The convention seeks to illuminate complex issues of health care practice and policy by bringing together leading-edge doers and thinkers – from operations to academia, from clinical practice to corporate management.  The convention delineates perspectives of stakeholders throughout the healthcare community in addressing broad issues and the type of health insurance to go for.

Some of topics to be discussed at the convention are the health implications of celebrity life styles; benefits of health insurance policies; health insurance policy, at what cost?; the health insurance policy, how dependable?; and the role of Government in health insurance policies

The convention is presented by Nigerian Entertainment Industry Lecture Series and is in partnership with National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Lagos State Ministry of Health and Nigeria Medical Association. It is billed to hold in July 2014 at the Grand Ball Room of Eko Hotel & Suites in Lagos.

The speakers at the event include the Executive Secretary of NHIS, Femi Thomas and the Lagos State Commisioner for Health, Jide Idris.

This convention will highlight the advantages of health insurance and why we must all insure our health.

Also, there will be timely intervention to save the life of any practitioner in the entertainment industry who falls sick. In the past, the industry has lost some of its finest entertainers because it took too long to raise the required funds from the public, friends and fans.

Prominent on the line up of activities for the convention is also the launching of the ‘Nigerian Entertainment Industry Health Trust Fund’ and unveiling of the proposed signatories