Slow NHIS Uptake Puts Universal Healthcare In Jeopardy

Putting former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's commitment to achieve universal healthcare by 2015 into doubt, the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Dr Waziri Dogo-Muhammad has revealed that uptake of the NHIS is expanding more slowly than the government had hoped. Out of a population of 140mn, just 2.5mn Nigerians have registered with the scheme in the two years since its

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