March 7^th, 2012

Garment Workers Health Insurance (HIP)

Promotion Campaign

The campaign was organized with cooperation and support from factory owner and all level of factory management to promote health insurance project for garment workers (HIP) at Jie Wei factory on March 7^th, 2012. The aims of this event are to raise awareness through question –and- answer session and HIP team’s dissemination of information related to the above-mentioned health insurance project to garment workers. In the meantime, the event included many happy entertaining programs. Moreover, at that time, the workers at Jie Wei were provided with opportunity to register to become HIP members. 

 Group photo of HIP team and Factory Management 

  

      Dance Competition

        

Question & Answer 

Session

Registration 

Communication & HIP

 The sailing is not always smooth
“Your promotion plans is only working at 1% with my workers and it may not improve much.”

These words were said by one general manger of the factory and hit my ears like electric shock. This factory allows HIP communication team to test promotion plans with his 300 workers for 1 hour a day for a week.

We decided, no matter what the negative words we were told we would like to try anyways. 

The drive to this factory is over very rough roads, so slippery in wet season that communication team fall off her motorbike. But we still keep on building to bring health insurance literacy to the illiterate. What we do is, present the health insurance concept, watching movie about how health insurance work for them, playing risk pooling game...in a very simple place inside of the factory to build our relationship to get the trust from them.

The rivers has some twists and turns in it, and at times the sailing get rough but we can say with perfect truth “always give it a try”

“This is the only perfect place that we can have for meeting and making the relationship with them for them to know & trust the project better”.

Growth together by being HIP member

The end of June 2011. HIP team had been so busy with running around to tow existing factories for the second round registration. After 1 year that HIP has been working with Jai Wei & Iberasia Garment.

For now we celebrate for the other 300 workers have being covered by HIP in this July. As the said of the HR manager at Jai Wei "We know that if there are 100 of our workers going out after working hours tonight. For sure we know if there are something wrong with them regarding to accident or sickness. They are all ensure." Little by little, we, factory and HIP is going to approach more understanding of how importance it is to be cover.

HEALTH FACILITIES PARTNERS

HIP has been working with public health facilities in order to provide health care to its members. Right now HIP has 6 partner hospitals including 2 National hospital, 2 Referral hospitals and 2 Health centers.

1. Khmer Soviet National Hospital , Started contract in May 2009.

2. Preah Kossamak National Hospital, started contract in January 2010.

3. Chamkarmorn Referral Hospital, started contract in August 2009.

4. Pochentong Referral Hospital,  started contract  in November 2009.

5. Toul kok Health Center, started contract in February 2010.

2. Steung Meanchey Health Center, started contract in May 2010.

Like a new born

"I don't know what I would have done if I had no health insurance. When I got sick, I only had a very small amount of money and I know that would not have been enough to get the necessary treatment. With HIP as my health insurance, I was able to get free health care for my labial cyst surgery. I feel new without the cyst on my mouth and I am not afraid anymore to look at myself in the mirror."

Said SAMBATH, 23, CTW worker

Knowledge Exchange for Technology

A Japanese expert joined HIP and NSSF for three weeks to assess the different solution for digital identification and identify the best one for the future NSSF scheme. The in-depth study and the different meetings gave a good understanding of the options... But the final decision is still to be made...

The japanese expert visiting one HIP health facility to understand the implementation issues

MEMBER IDENTIFICATION AT HEALTH FACILITIES

Why do we need to identify members properly?
We need to identify the members properly mainly to ensure members can be identified and get access to the service but also to avoid fraud, for example members exchanging card or former members using the service.


How can HIP identify the members and know the membership status?
1. When registering with HIP, members get a card 
2. When using the service, the member have to show his card to the hostess so the hostess can check the photo on the card to make sure that he is the right card holder.

 

3. Then, the hostess checks in the system to ensure the membership is still active.

4. The hostess fills in the patient form for the member before he meets with the doctor.