Four million Nigerians are enrolled in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), according to the Coordinating Minister of Health & Social Welfare, Ali Pate.
Pate, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, added that the federal government is working with state health insurance regulators to reform the NHIS.
He added, “In the past two years, the basic healthcare provision fund, which provides for the vulnerable groups, has grown, and hundreds of thousands of poor, vulnerable women, children have been covered through that fund to access primary healthcare services.
Working with state health insurance authorities, we are rewriting the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). In our nation, we’ve seen an increase in health insurance enrollment. Four million Nigerians have enrolled in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) over the past two years under this administration.
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When President Bola Tinubu took office, only 16 million Nigerians were enrolled in the nearly 25 years of health insurance, according to Pate, who benefited from the administration’s successes.
When this administration arrived, literally speaking, less than a million people enrolled in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), but in the past two years, four million Nigerians have enrolled in it, according to Pae.
“Nigeria would have had more than 100 million enrollees if we had been doing this for the past few years.”
Watch the entire conversation below:
