Insurance coverage, key to addressing Nigeria’s healthcare challenges –Says Allagoa, NSITF boss – The Solar Nigeria

From Adanna NnamaniAbuja

Managing Director and Chief Government Officer (CEO) of the Nigeria Social Insurance coverage Belief Fund (NSITF), Maureen Allagoa has restated that significance of insurance coverage as a vital ingredient to fixing the myriad of challenges going through the nation’s well being care system.

In line with Allagoa, the significance of medical health insurance in Nigeria can by no means be over emphasised because it cushions the potential detrimental impression of the persistent underfunding within the well being sector.

The NSITF boss spoke at a three-day retreat of the Second  Board and Administration of ProHealth Well being Administration Organisation (HMO) retreat in Nassarawa on the weekend.

With over 800 healthcare suppliers in its community, greater than 50,000 enrollees and a million efficiently skilled personnel, she famous that the group has the obligation to behave as a bridge between Nigerians and the healthcare suppliers by coordinating the supply of fundamental healthcare companies.

Talking on the occasion themed, “Nigeria Well being Insurance coverage Ecosystem: The Place of ProHealth HMO Restricted, Allogoa stated: “Medical insurance offers monetary danger safety for Nigerians by insuring the supply of pool of funds for the supply of their healthcare wants. By making medical health insurance necessary for all Nigerians, notably all employers and staff within the company and personal sectors, within the Nigeria Well being Insurance coverage Authority (NSHI) Act, 2022, authorities has offered assured entry to high quality and reasonably priced healthcare for all Nigerians.

“Right here in lies the place of ProHealth within the Nigeria’s medical health insurance ecosystem as one of many main well being maintainance organisations identical to it’s mother or father physique, the NSITF, which is a number one social safety establishment in Nigeria, and certainly Africa.

In his remarks, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige stated the retreat was a  distinctive alternative for all members to deliberate on points affecting the Nigerian medical health insurance sector, and provide you with finest  doable options.

Represented by NSITF Board Chairman, Chief Emmanuel Nwosu, the Minister stated: “As everyone knows, the Nigeria well being care sector has been going through quite a few challenges through the years together with insufficient funding, low insurance coverage penetration, and insufficient infrastructure.

These challenges have made it tough for a lot of Nigerians to entry reasonably priced and high quality healthcare companies.

“Nevertheless, the emergence  of Well being Administration Organisations like ProHealth has performed a vital position in bridging the hole. ProHealth HMO has been on the forefront of offering entry to high quality healthcare for Nigerians by partnering with well being care suppliers to supply reasonably priced well being care companies to its enrollees.

“This retreat presents a possibility for us to deliberate on the challenges confronted by the Nigeria medical health insurance sector in offering reasonably priced healthcare companies and the way ProHealth HMO can proceed to innovate and supply high quality well being care companies to its enrollees. I urge you all to take part on this retreat with open thoughts dedication to discovering sensible options to the challenges we face.”

Chairman Board of Administrators at ProHealth, Prof  Gabriel Okenwa said that social safety, which must be prioritized, is the one manner to make sure that Nigerians have entry to correct well being companies.

In line with Okenwa, “That is for the entire world to know that now we have come of age, and we’re dropping this as from the underside of our hearts as nipping the bud at this cut-off date. I wish to say that by part 17 of the 1999 structure of Nigeria as amended, sufficient medical and well being amenities for Nigerians is assured by way of the part of our structure.

“The one strategy to realise this goal is thru social safety. On the peak of this social safety, is what NSITF is main and NSITF, is the pioneer social safety organisation and main this. Provision of environment friendly well being care system with fashionable well being amenities requires enamours capital and sources.  The worldwide finest practices endorsed by Worldwide Labour Organisation (ILO) is thru social insurance coverage scheme and that is pushed by considered one of our subsidiaries, that’s the ProHealth HMO.

Talking additional he stated: “We enjoin all Nigerians to embrace and subscribe to this this key for reasonably priced, accessible and sustainable well being care supply system on this nation of ours, Nigeria. It’s the strategy to go fir Nigerian within the total curiosity of our common effectively being. Bear in mind, well being is wealth.”

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