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Insurance scheme for NSS personnel launched

National service personnel who suffer permanent or temporary disability through accidents during the service year will now be entitled to GH¢15,000 insurance cover.

Under the group insurance package, national service personnel who suffer permanent or temporary disability through accidents during the service year will now be entitled to GH¢15,000 insurance cover.

The next of kin of service persons who die while undertaking the mandatory national exercise, will receive the same amount from Glico Life.

The insurance package which takes retrospective effect from September 1 this year, will also make GH¢3,000 available to service persons who suffer accidents that will keep them off their duties as user agencies for a month.

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According to the Executive Director of the NSS, Mr Ussif Mustafa, all service personnel would pay a monthly premium of GH¢15 to benefit from the insurance package.

“As part of this comprehensive initiative, there is a special package for free inter MTN calls for service persons each month, GH¢5 recharge airtime from MTN to other networks every month, free browsing on social media, 500 free messages, 100 per cent bonus on all MTN recharge made by service persons, as well as free viewing of a movie twice a year at Silver Star Cinema,” he said.

On his part, the Chairman of the NSS Board, Professor Kofi Osei-Akuoku, said the policy had come at the right time.

“The NSS board endorsed this insurance policy because we took into consideration the vulnerability of a large number of the service persons who are working under harsh and challenging situations, including health challenges and loss of life in the line of duty.

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“It is for these and other reasons that the board lends its support to ensuring that the insurance policy comes to fruition,” he said.

Prof. Osei-Akuoku further urged the management of Glico Life to ensure that qualified service persons get access to claims in times of need, saying “we will not hesitate at all to abrogate the agreement if the quality of the service is compromised.”

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