Boda boda cyclists in Likuyani Sub County have been urged take medical insurance covers with the National Hospital and Insurance Fund (NHIF) in order to insure their lives against accidents and any other ailments.
Political activist and Businessman, Mr. Deberious Shikuku made the appeal when he addressed mourners at Nasianda village in Likuyani where he attended the funeral service for a West FM fan Mr. Peter Saisi Mukangai who succumbed following a road accident, which involved his motorbike and a tractor.
“Mukangai would not have lost life had he had received better treatment,” observed Shikuku while eulogizing the deceased who medical reports indicated he succumbed due to excessive bleeding.
Besides accidents, Shikuku explained other risks involved in the bodaboda industry, including respiratory diseases like pneumonia, thus the urgent need for the riders to cushion themselves and families against the same by enrolling with available medical insurance covers.
The businessman appealed to medical practitioners, management of NHIF and other stakeholders in the Sub County to consider mounting awareness campaigns with health insurance cover messages specifically targeting bodaboda riders.
Shikuku at the same time asked the national and county governments to create job opportunities in order to reduce the ballooning population of educated and professionally trained youths, whom he said, for lack of better employment openings resort to bodaboda.
“Even though bodaboda is a fast growing industry, the country, however, risks misdirecting and wasting her professionally skilled manpower that would have otherwise added desired value elsewhere,” noted Shikuku.
Boda boda cyclists in Likuyani Sub County have been urged take medical insurance covers with the National Hospital and Insurance Fund (NHIF) in order to insure their lives against accidents and any other ailments.
Political activist and Businessman, Mr. Deberious Shikuku made the appeal when he addressed mourners at Nasianda village in Likuyani where he attended the funeral service for a West FM fan Mr. Peter Saisi Mukangai who succumbed following a road accident, which involved his motorbike and a tractor.
“Mukangai would not have lost life had he had received better treatment,” observed Shikuku while eulogizing the deceased who medical reports indicated he succumbed due to excessive bleeding.
Besides accidents, Shikuku explained other risks involved in the bodaboda industry, including respiratory diseases like pneumonia, thus the urgent need for the riders to cushion themselves and families against the same by enrolling with available medical insurance covers.
The businessman appealed to medical practitioners, management of NHIF and other stakeholders in the Sub County to consider mounting awareness campaigns with health insurance cover messages specifically targeting bodaboda riders.
Shikuku at the same time asked the national and county governments to create job opportunities in order to reduce the ballooning population of educated and professionally trained youths, whom he said, for lack of better employment openings resort to bodaboda.
“Even though bodaboda is a fast growing industry, the country, however, risks misdirecting and wasting her professionally skilled manpower that would have otherwise added desired value elsewhere,” noted Shikuku.