The Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) announced plans to partner with MobiCash to ease collection of payment for community-based health insurance (mutuelle de sante) across the country, New Times reported. According to Deogratias Ntigurirwa, in charge of the Mutuelle de Sante mobilisation and registration division at RSSB, subscribers are expected to start using the new digital platform in June. 

The Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) announced plans to partner with MobiCash to ease collection of payment for community-based health insurance (mutuelle de sante) across the country, New Times reported. According to Deogratias Ntigurirwa, in charge of the Mutuelle de Sante mobilisation and registration division at RSSB, subscribers are expected to start using the new digital platform in June. 

The insurance covers more than 90 percent of Rwandans. In an interview with The New Times, Ntigurirwa said beginning with the 2018-2019 fiscal year clients will pay their subscriptions using the digital platform. Mutuelle subscribers are currently required to pay their contributions then go to physically validate their cards, which takes time. Ntigurirwa said it is also a challenge to establish the number of subscribers in a timely manner without calling all the sections to compile the numbers. Mutuelle cards will only serve to check ID, he added. 

In December 2017, RSSB met all SACCOs (Savings and Credit Cooperative) in the country to discuss how to use MobiCash in Mutuelle payments, he said