Health Authority Targets Universal Coverage

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) said the country’s wellness security sum had importantly increased, with implicit 21.1 cardinal Nigerians present enrolled arsenic of August 2025.

The Director of the Formal Sector Department astatine NHIA, Pharm. Nuhu Ajodi ,disclosed this connected Thursday during a sensitisation store connected Strengthening Institutional Support for Universal Health Coverage for self-paying agencies organised by NHIA successful Abuja.

Ajodi described the accomplishment arsenic a important milestone and grounds of renewed assurance successful the country’s wellness security system.

He said the advancement reflected the interaction of the NHIA Act 2022, which made wellness security mandatory for each Nigerians.

This enactment broke a two-decade stagnation that saw sum stay astatine astir 7 per cent.

“Before the caller Act, wellness security sum successful Nigeria had remained stagnant for astir 20 years. But with the statesmanlike directive and enforcement of the NHIA Act, we are witnessing dependable maturation successful enrollment and nationalist confidence,” helium said.

Ajodi explained that the NHIA works intimately with regulatory agencies to enforce mandatory insurance, boost nationalist awareness, and fortify spot successful the healthcare system.

He added that nether the enactment of the contiguous Director-General of NHIA, Dr Kelechi Ohiri, the authorization has launched caller initiatives specified arsenic the Obstetric Fistula Care Programme and the Emergency Care Initiative to trim fiscal barriers to healthcare and enactment women facing life-threatening complications.

He further noted that programmes specified arsenic the Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC) and the Fistula Free Programme (FFP) person already provided thousands of women nationwide with entree to prime maternal and reproductive wellness services.

“The NHIA remains committed to protecting Nigerians from catastrophic wellness expenditures and achieving cosmopolitan wellness coverage,” Ajodi stated.

He urged store participants to prosecute actively and deepen their knowing of the security process. He noted that national information and stakeholder collaboration are important to sustaining the caller gains.