OUR HANDS ARE CLEAN, SAYS e-NHIMA PROVIDER
By ADRIAN MWANZA
A ZAMBIAN firm that supplied a software to the National Health Insurance Management Authority has protested suggestions that government wasted K16 million by using it.
As a Zambian company they were proud that the software they provided to NHIMA called e-NHIMA was working just fine and was being used by Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA), Zesco and NAPSA contributing to almost 90 percent of the country’s total budget.
Probase Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Roy Muyelu said the whole process with NHIMA was done legitimately through a tender and described the price as fair.
Probase, the suppliers of the software for collecting data, is shocked by claims that wasted K16 million over the acquisition of the eNHIMA which was similar to that being used by a number of quasi government institutions.
The company is taken aback because its services were second to none and was the best Fintech provider in the country at the moment.
He said the firm was providing services to countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and they had received offers from
Countries like Eswatini and Lesotho Revenue who wanted the same software as was being used by ZRA.
The company says it was one of the best at what it does and was being sought after and said the system referred to at NHIMA, was fully functional.
Mr Muyelu said Probase was an indigenous company which had topnotch services which they had rendered to institutions like Zesco, ZRA and other quasi government institutions. He said that the software being used at ZRA had made the institution very viable to an extent that they were able to meet targets and be able to contribute to almost 90% of the country’s budget.
“One thing we can assure you is we do not even get payments before completing our work but wait to ensure that we deliver,” he said.
Mr Muyelu said the software was so efficient that it had helped NHIMA raise approximately K1 billion from the time it was implemented.
He said that eNHIMA together with the ones at ZRA were so efficient which prompted countries like eswatini and Lesotho who wanted to have a system similar to the ones in Zambia.
NHIMA never had a system to manage collections and the government never gave them any startup funds.
A feasibility study conducted indicated that NHIMA needed $8 0million to start but the government never gave them any money and that it managed to raise the money from contributions from zero funds.
Without a system in place NHIMA would have failed to account for K1.2 billion it has collected from contributions.
