Health Insurance in Nigeria – Only 3% of Nigerians are Covered
Health insurance has barely scratched the surface in Nigeria with regards to percentage coverage of the population.
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Health insurance has barely scratched the surface in Nigeria with regards to percentage coverage of the population.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), key characteristics of good health service delivery include comprehensiveness, accessibility, quality, and inclusive coverage. It should also be people-centred and well-coordinated. Accountability and efficiency are also important in healthcare delivery.
About N5 billion will go to service major construction works in the nation’s health sector in the 2020 proposed budget, but development experts, working around accountability process in public budgeting, worry that this may come to waste because the projects that are nominated are not captured in the vision of the Ministry of Health, the regulatory institution for health development in the country.