Pakistan's State Life Insurance Corporation SLIC is planning to launch health insurance scheme for residents in the UAE and elsewhere in the Gulf region, said its visiting Chairman Shahid Aziz Siddiqui. "We are finalising plan to roll out a new health insurance scheme to cover medical needs of hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis and other expatriates in the UAE and in other the Gulf region countries following high demand from expatriate community," Siddiqi said at annual award giving function in Dubai.
Since, medical insurance has become compulsory in Abu Dhabi for all employees and plans are underway to make it mandatory for all companies to cover medical expenses for employees, SLIC considers it timely to launch affordable health insurance policy especially for low income group of people. Khalid Mahmoud Shahid, Dubai based Gulf Zonal Chief of SLIC said they were growing at fast pace in the UAE with opening of new offices in Sharjah and Al Ain and would open offices in Bahrain and Qatar this year.