September 01, (THEWILL) – Emeka Rollas, the President of the Actor’s Guild of Nigeria (AGN), has revealed that the association’s introduction of health insurance to actors is meant to address the recurring situation, where thespians with life-threatening ailments turn to social media to solicit funds for treatment.
He made this known in an interview with THE WHISTLER, Rollas advised its members, who wouldn’t want to get sick and beg for money in the future to sign up for their health management scheme.
According to Rollas, the guild cannot force the HMO (Health Maintenance Organisation) on the actors who chose to opt out, but noted that the AGN will not pay the medical bills of such actors when they’re ill and unable to foot their bills.
“We have health Management scheme but, the HMO, (Health Maintenance Organisation) is not something you enforce on anyone, it’s a scheme you initiate and put up, any member who doesn’t want to fall sick and beg for money in the future can sign up for the scheme, and where a member doesn’t sign up for it, they are on their own when anything happens because our association doesn’t pay for actors.
“It’s not like a normal organisation where you receive salary and it’s deducted from it, here, we are not the ones that pay our actors
“So, it’s optional for an actor to sign up to HMO, and whoever that didn’t sign up, whatever comes to you, you have to take care of yourself”, he revealed.
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