Dr Emmanuael Uba, the General Manager, Formal Sector Department, NHIS, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.
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Unaegbu said the new Executive Secretary of NHIS, Prof. Usman Yusuf, was determined to ensure that NHIS worked for all Nigerians and for enrolees to enjoy quality health services in hospitals
He mentioned that the meeting was geared towards consensus building and support among stakeholders towards repositioning the scheme for effective service delivery
This is contained in a statement signed by Ayo Osinlu, Head, Media and Public Relations of the scheme in Abuja on Friday. According to Osinlu, the NHIS Executive Secretary, Prof. Usman Yusuf, said this during a courtesy call on the management of the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited in Abuja
He cited unsatisfactory services and harrowing encounters with the Health Care Providers in terms of drug availability and administration
Dr. Leke Pitan, a former Lagos State Commissioner for Health, on Saturday urged Federal Government to encourage Nigerians to enrol…
He applauded the National Health Insurance scheme rating it above 50 per cent and called for the modernisation of the scheme to accommodate more workers even in the states.
Disclosing this to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday was the acting Executive Secretary of NHIS, Dr. Abdulrahman Sambo, while receiving the report on Hospital Capital Improvement Project
He said the scheme had developed key elements to achieving universal
health insurance through compulsion for those who could afford health
care and subsidy payment
The event was organised by the Oyo State Chapter of the Nigerian
Medical Association as part of a one-day continuous medical education
initiative