Insurance Regulatory Authority(IRA) has been urged to consider partnering with county governments with a view to saving huge amounts of funds allocated to health services.
The partnership will see the county governments embrace tailor- made- medical insurance cover products that will release the budgetary allocations on the health docket for other development activities.
Speaking at Gusii stadium during the authority’s open day, county Education and Manpower ‘minister’ Amos Andama remarked health services should no longer be the leading budgetary consumer.
He suggested players in the soapstone industry in the area be sensitized to insure their carvings on transit to markets against damage or theft.
Andama attributed high expenditures by Kenyans through fundraisers on funerals and medication to lack of information on the urgent need to insure themselves.
According to the county ‘minister’ Kenyans had been overburdened when they sell their valuable property or contribute through on line-platforms for a issue that could be catered by an insurance policy.
Evans Kebagendi who represented the IRA CEO Godfrey Kiptum announced on an ongoing awareness creation session in counties countrywide to engage more people insurance matters.
The IRA was bent on changing people’s negative attitude towards taking up insurance policies saying it was meant to benefit them.
Kisii county was suitable for insurance products owing to its rich agriculture potential among others,he added.
During the weekly sessions,informal sector transport operators known as ‘Boda boda’ were involved.