Insurance companies in the country have been told to provide regular trainings to their staff to make them more competitive in the free insurance market in East Africa Region.
The Vice President of Tanzania National Re-Insurance Corporation Limited (Tan-Re), Wilson Ndesanjo said insurance companies ought to keep their staff abreast with modern insurance practices to create a pool of strong human resources.
Ndesanjo told the press yesterday in Dar es Salaam during certificate handing-over-ceremony after a three-day training workshop to several insurance workers that more training is needed if insurance workers are to compete in the region.
The training by Tan-Re and the Ivorian based company NCA-RE was attended by 50 insurance workers from 25 local insurance companies with trainers from both the United States of America and Ivory Coast.
He said East African countries that include Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Southern Sudan and Tanzania will all be striving for a single free insurance market thus a need for more training to workers.
One of the beneficiaries of the training, Tanika Anyosisye said the training will help her to sensitize the public on the benefits of insurance on machineries and buildings.
She said a number of Tanzanians still lack the knowledge on insurance thereby suffering huge losses during calamities.
TAN-RE is a regional reinsurance company proving a broad range of reinsurance products and services to clients in Africa. It is registered to transact reinsurance business in all non-life insurance including marine, aviation, life assurance and pension business.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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