Di National Health Insurance Authority yan say caesarean section dey inside health insurance plans.
Di Director General for di NHIA, Prof. Mohammed Sambo open up for di sixth annual conference of the Association of Nigerian Health Journalists, inside Akwanga, Nasarawa state with di theme “Health Security, Universal Health Coverage, and the National Health Insurance Act: How Can Nigeria Get It Right: The Role of the Media in Perspective”.
Di NHIA also pint out say dem set up committee to implement di NHIA Act as di President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) been sign di National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2022 into law on May 19, 2022.
Di Director tok for plenty grammer say:
“As part of our healthcare reforms, I have signed into law the recently passed National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2022, which repeals the National Health Insurance Scheme Act. We will ensure the full implementation of the new Act, to provide coverage for all Nigerians.
“We started the implementation of the NHIA act the very day it was signed into law. The component of making it mandatory is where the real challenge is.
“We have to seek the agreement of agencies like the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigeria Immigration Service, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company to ensure that they go along with this act and you know it does not always come easy but a committee has been set up to interface with these agencies and ensure that the act is implemented because the salvation of the health sector lies in this act.
“When this act works, our health system will work. So, we have started that implementation.”
He also point out say health insurance dey cover plenty surgeries, tests, and scans.
