NIGERIA VICE PRESIDENT STRESS THE NEED AND ROUTE TO A BETTER HEALTHCARE
The Vice President stress the need for a better health reform through a health care insurance scheme
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has said the population of Nigeria currently is 200million, increases by five million every year. He insist with such growth Nigeria need a better health insurance scheme to keep up with the growth annually.
He stressed the importance of the national health insurance scheme to Nigeria’s development, saying “without a compulsory health insurance scheme, nigeria scannot harness the resources that are required to provide decent healthcare for 200 million people, growing by five million every year. I think the game-changer is health insurance.”
Osinbajo said this on Tuesday while rounding up his views on an interaction at the closing of the 27th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja (NES #27) themed: “Securing Our Future, the Fierce Urgency of Now.”
On developing the health sector and government’s ongoing reforms, the vice president said, “We are at a point now with the healthcare reform committee, which I have the privilege of chairing, where we are looking at all these options. We are trying to see in what ways we can ensure that this will work.
“So, there are huge revolutionary changes that need to be made and I believe that they are entirely possible. And we are at a point where these things are accessible to us, with time we can do these things, I am certainly looking forward to some of the reforms that are possible,” he said.
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