{"id":60174,"date":"2024-05-04T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/masebo-directs-nhima-to-withdraw-circular"},"modified":"2024-05-04T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:09:00","slug":"masebo-directs-nhima-to-withdraw-circular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/masebo-directs-nhima-to-withdraw-circular","title":{"rendered":"MASEBO DIRECTS NHIMA TO WITHDRAW CIRCULAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Health Minister SYLVIA MASEBO has directed the board and management of the National Health Insurance Management Authority \u2013NHIMA- to immediately withdraw the circular, that has provided a notice of changes to the benefits package.<\/p>\n<p>The Circular is dated April 30th, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. MASEBO says according to the National Insurance Act Number 2 of 2018, any changes by NHIMA to the benefits package should be approved by the government which was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>The minister has further guided NHIMA to engage stakeholders and government before publishing any changes.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a statement issued to ZNBC News in Lusaka today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Health Minister SYLVIA MASEBO has directed the board and management of the National Health Insurance Management Authority \u2013NHIMA- to immediately withdraw the circular, that has provided a notice of changes to the benefits package. The Circular is dated April 30th, 2024. Ms. MASEBO says according to the National Insurance Act Number 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":60173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,248],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-60174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MASEBO DIRECTS NHIMA TO WITHDRAW CIRCULAR - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/masebo-directs-nhima-to-withdraw-circular\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MASEBO DIRECTS NHIMA TO WITHDRAW CIRCULAR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. 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