Organisers Set For Maiden Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Convention

The Nigerian
Entertainment Industry Lecture Series (NEILS) to highlight the advantages of health insurance and why entertainers must insure their health will hold on July 22, the organisers have said.
The lecture is part of the activities for the maiden Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Convention being organised in conjunction with National Health Insurance Scheme.
The other collaborators in the event that is scheduled for the Grand Ball Room of Eko Hotel in Lagos are Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Medical Association.
“It will encourage the practitioners of the entertainment industry to insure their health and plan for the unforeseen.
“It will put an end to the highly degrading means of begging for alms whenever any practitioner of the industry is down with an ailment,” the organisers said in a statement on Thursday in Lagos.
“And at the end of this conference, practitioners will put more premium values on their health and understand perfectly the importance of health insurance.
“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.”
According to the statement, the convention will also help to fulfil the directives of the Nigerian government urging all citizens to embrace the National Health Insurance Scheme.
“The convention will help the practitioners of the entertainment industry to preserve their own future and that of their families.
“Majority of them have learnt lots of lessons from our yesterday celebrities who by now cannot foot their own health bills.
“None of the crop of today’s celebrities will be a star for life, especially as the times and seasons are subject to change.
“This will help them to save a fraction of their earnings today for their health insurance schemes against rainy days instead of blowing all on life’s frivolities,” it said.
Some of the topics to be discussed at the convention are “The Health Implications of Celebrity Life Styles”, “Benefits of Health Insurance Policies” and “Health Insurance Policy …at What Cost?
The others are “Health Insurance Policy…How Dependable?” and “The Role of Government in Health Insurance Policies”.