Judiciary rolls out Medical Insurance policy for all Workers

The Judiciary, an Arm of Government has in the past been spending millions of money annually to facilitate some of its individual staff to get treatment in and outside the country.

However, the Permanent Secretary (PS) Pius Bigirimana, advised the top administration that government would not only save more money by rolling out an insurance policy but also benefit every worker of the institution.

And on October 16, 2020, the Judiciary held a top management meeting and initiated a competitive procurement process to acquire medical insurance for all staff.

“A List of 12 Medical Insurance providers was obtained from Insurance Regulatory Authority. On 19th March 2021, the Judiciary Contracts Committee approved the Medical Insurance providers. Bids were issued to the Insurance providers.

On the deadline of submission, five bidders had returned bids. Evaluation was undertaken and the best three Insurance providers namely; M/s The Jubilee Insurance Company, M/s UAP OLD Mutual Insurance and M/s Prudential Assurance were selected for award of contract. The three were sent out to the staff; both Executive and Standard class for staff to select their preferred service provider,” Mr Bigirimana said during the launch of the insurance scheme at the headquarters on Wednesday.

The higher bench (Judges and Justices) were also requested to select from the three best evaluated providers which they did.

“All the responses from Higher Bench, Executive class and Standard class was tabulated and the 1^st Contracts committee meeting held on 14^th July 2021 approved the evaluation report and contract award recommendation for the three Insurance Companies to provide Medical Insurance to the staff.  A notice of best evaluated bidders was published and on 2^nd August 2021.  The solicitor General cleared the three contracts for provision of Medical Insurance for the Judiciary staff,” he added.

A total of over 2300 Judiciary staff in categories of Justices, Judges for both the Executive class and Standard class members will access medical insurance from the three Medical insurance providers namely; M/s The Jubilee Insurance Company, M/s UAP OLD Mutual Insurance and M/s Prudential Assurance.

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