East Africa’s largest insurance group, Jubilee Insurance and
leading international healthcare company, Bupa International, today launched a new international health insurance product dubbed Explorer Health Plan.
Explorer
will seek to provide health insurance services to the growing
middle-class, mid-level executives, and expatriates living in Kenya and
travelling in and around Africa, including those seeking treatment in
South Africa, India, Pakistan
and Sri Lanka. The new healthcare insurance product will be available
under the Business Explorer Health Plan for corporates and Explorer
Health Plan targeting individual clients.
Speaking
during the launch, Jubilee Holdings Chairman Mr. Nizar Juma said,
“Explorer is a regional plan from an international company designed to
bring it within the reach of senior and middle executives specifically
designed for the Africa
market and it offers great value for money by providing both individual and corporate access to world class medical facilities.”
He
added that the partnership with Bupa will enable Jubilee Insurance to
meet the growing demand for international medical insurance products and
provide a one-stop shop for medical cover to major corporations,
private individuals
and families in the region.
Some
of the unique benefits of Explorer Plan include a full range of health
screening providing valuable early detection of conditions such as
cancer, without lifetime limits for eligible treatment for chronic
diseases,
such as heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes, ensuring continued
access to treatment for as long as a customer is on the plan.
Other
benefits include cover for eligible treatment for HIV and AIDS
including related conditions and drug therapy, In addition the product
has no maximum age limit for new policy holders or those renewing the
policy.
Bupa
International’s Global Sales & Commercial Director, Tim Slee said,
“we are delighted to be launching this new health insurance product,
Explorer, adapted for the African market with Jubilee Insurance. Our
experience in serving the
African market for over 30 years and our global network expertise in
designing world-class health insurance products for both individual and
corporates will be key in providing access to high-quality international
healthcare to the people of Kenya.
Under
the plan, Jubilee Insurance customers will receive full cancer
treatment to ensure that customers are supported at every stage of the
treatment. In addition, there will be a cover
available for eligible congenital conditions such as heart
defects. “The new international health insurance product will offer our
customers, locally and regionally, an expansive range of international
medical health-care services through Bupa International,
a health insurer of considerable repute and further demonstrates our
aim to provide to the people of this region comprehensive benefits
together with affordable, high quality healthcare service,”
said Chairman of Jubilee Holdings, Mr. Nizar Juma.
The
launch of the Explorer Health plan follows the strategic partnership
that the two organizations, Bupa International & Jubilee Insurance
launched in February this year which brings together Jubilee’s local
knowledge with Bupa’s global
healthcare expertise.
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