Alexander Grenz, president and CEO of Allianz PNB Life
There’s medical health insurance that provides you that much-needed peace of thoughts—and there’s insurance coverage that lets you share that peace with others. The latter is what one of many Philippines’ main life insurers is providing its shoppers as a part of a brand new social duty challenge that goals to “promote the importance of inclusivity in insurance.”
Established by Allianz PNB Life, the initiative is known as Allianz Kaagapay (the Filipino time period for a useful companion), and its objective is to offer medical health insurance to the nation’s underserved rural communities. To take action, Allianz partnered with Attain52, a social enterprise that gives screening, well being workers’ coaching, reasonably priced medication, insurance coverage, diagnostics and shopper well being merchandise in rural areas which can be often unable to entry such companies.
“Most of those who do not have insurance are from the most vulnerable areas of the country. Through our partnership with Reach52, we aim to provide these communities the protection they need during these challenging times,” Allianz PNB Life president and CEO Alexander Grenz says.
Allianz PNB Life’s prospects may even play a task on this program, as a result of by way of Kaagapay, members of Attain52 beneficiary communities will obtain P25,000 worth of life insurance coverage—together with COVID-19 protection—for each buy of Allianz Nicely! made till Dec. 20.
Allianz Nicely! is Allianz PNB Life’s medical health insurance product that has an annual plan restrict of as much as P100 million, which covers COVID-19 hospitalization and intensive care unit bills as much as the plan restrict. Attain52 operates their on-the-ground companies for over 500 communities within the Philippines, Cambodia and India, with further international locations within the pipeline, and have partnerships with over 20 main international and regional organizations.
Based on Edward Booty, founder and CEO of Attain 52, the group’s members from Pototan and Cuartero, Iloilo, would be the first beneficiaries of the insurance coverage package deal, as a result of these have been a few of their most energetic communities for the reason that social enterprise was established in 2016.
Attain52 members primarily come from the lower-income C and D brackets, explains Booty. Working carefully with native authorities models, Attain52 offers entry to common well being care by coaching barangay well being staff and “access managers” locally, who’re tasked with going door-to-door to enroll folks within the enterprise’s companies, by accumulating data on their well being and well-being wants.
Attain52 is known as as such as a result of it seeks to assist people who haven’t any entry to affordable well being care throughout the globe—which is 52 % of the world’s inhabitants, or over three billion folks, in line with the social enterprise.
“Our access managers are the ones who help us fill the gap in the health care system in remote rural communities. We thank Allianz PNB Life for providing this support to our members,” says Booty.
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