Firm focuses on quality insurance

MAKING quality health insurance services available to every Papua New Guinean is the goal of an insurance company established this year.
PNG Health Assurance (PHA) chairman Raj Juta said the company made tremendous growth in the last eight months with the signing of about 10,000 members from both the public and private sectors.
Juta said the PNG Nurses Association, Defence Force, Customs, Ela Motors, Hilton Hotel Group, PNG Air Services to name a few had signed up with PHA.
He said an insurance card was issued to the members to access cashless healthcare services in the network of 27 hospitals and clinics they had in the country.
Juta said members were using their insurance cards at the Paradise Private Hospital and 2K Clinic.
He said they would be introducing the biometrics of finger print and facial recognition for authentication to ensure that the card was used by the right person.
He said they had signed up the Kundiawa Hospital and were working with Port Moresby General Hospital so they get along they will get the public hospitals into their system.
Juta added that if the treatment was not available in PNG, their clients could go to the Philippines, Singapore and Australia to get help through their network of hospitals.
He said one of their objectives was to have a good public health system therefore they were looking into supporting health infrastructural development.
As a way of giving back to the community he said they were funding a clinic in Kiunga, Western, in partnership with the Loctic
Bige Group, a local landowner company and they have also set up a trust fund for people with heart diseases.
“We are people’s insurer and we are here to make insurance affordable to the people,” Juta said.
He said it was PHA’s quality, affordability and customer service that set it apart from other insurance companies in the country.