The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has completed the latest phase of its rehabilitation programme for employees injured in workplace accidents, providing prosthetic limbs and other assistive devices to 78 beneficiaries across the country.
The presentation was made in Abuja during the submission of the final report on the Fund’s Prosthesis Provision Exercise, an initiative designed to restore mobility and improve the quality of life of workers who sustained permanent disabilities while carrying out their duties.
Managing Director of NSITF, Barrister Oluwaseun Faleye, said the programme was successfully delivered through the collective efforts of prosthesis providers, employers, beneficiaries and the Fund’s monitoring team. He was represented at the event by the Executive Director (Operations), Mrs. Mojisola Alli Macaulay.
Faleye commended all stakeholders for their commitment throughout the exercise, noting that their collaboration ensured the successful completion of the rehabilitation programme. He also praised the prosthesis providers for meeting specialised clinical needs, including the provision of a hip disarticulation prosthesis for a beneficiary requiring advanced care.
According to him, the exercise, which began in April 2026, was closely supervised by the Fund’s Claims and Compensation Department from the assessment stage through fabrication, fitting, training and eventual discharge of beneficiaries.
He explained that all approved beneficiaries underwent medical assessment, received customised prosthetic devices, participated in rehabilitation and training sessions, and were discharged after meeting prescribed recovery and functional standards.
Faleye said the Fund replaced beneficiaries who could not participate because they were unreachable, declined the intervention or had died with eligible individuals from a supplementary list to ensure that all available prosthetic devices were effectively utilised.
The programme covered a wide range of prosthetic devices, including above-knee, below-knee, above-elbow and below-elbow prostheses, a hip disarticulation prosthesis, a trans-humeral prosthesis and silicone partial hand prostheses.
General Manager, Claims and Compensation, Mrs. Nkiru Ede-Ogunnaike, said the rehabilitation process extended beyond the provision of artificial limbs to include clinical assessments, measurements, fabrication, fitting, gait and functional training, evaluation and final discharge.
She noted that beneficiaries expressed satisfaction with the quality of services received, while all required discharge documentation, warranty certificates and satisfaction forms had been completed and properly documented.
According to Ede-Ogunnaike, the intervention fulfilled the Fund’s statutory responsibility to provide rehabilitation support for workers who suffer disabilities arising from workplace accidents, while significantly improving beneficiaries’ mobility, independence and overall quality of life.
Speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries, Mr. Solomon Sunday, an employee of Zodoson Industries in Abia State, described the programme as transformative, saying it had restored hope to workers who had struggled emotionally and financially following life-changing injuries.
He said many beneficiaries had battled frustration and depression after their accidents but now looked forward to rebuilding their lives. Sunday also commended the Fund for providing opportunities for skills acquisition that would enable injured workers to earn sustainable livelihoods despite their disabilities.
The NSITF’s prosthesis initiative forms part of its broader mandate under the Employees’ Compensation Scheme to provide medical rehabilitation, compensation and social protection for employees who suffer occupational injuries, diseases or disabilities in the course of their employment.
