Industry / Nigeria
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Slow NHIS Uptake Puts Universal Healthcare In Jeopardy
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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