Health Insurance Scheme Partners NBS, SERVICOM On Data Management

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has signed 2 agreements with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the SERVICOM Office to fortify collaboration for data-driven decision-making and improved work delivery.

Speaking during the signing ceremony, the Director General of NHIA, Dr Kelechi Ohiri, reiterated the value of close information successful ensuring Universal Health Coverage for Nigerians.
He said, “It is often said that thing that matters is measured, and thing that is measured matters. Our enactment successful NHIA is captious due to the fact that it profoundly affects lives and each household.

“Our ngo is to bring Nigerians retired of wellness poorness and guarantee they person fiscal entree to health. And it is truthful imperative that we person precise credible frameworks for not conscionable assessing the interaction of what we’re doing connected the lives of the mean Nigerian, but that this is consistently measured and brought to the fore successful our regular sermon successful nationalist developments.”

Statistician General/CEO of the National Bureau of Statistics, Adeyemi Adeniran, highlighted the value of the collaboration.

“This integration volition let america to measurement the existent interaction of wellness security connected equity, poorness reduction, and accessibility to affordable and prime wellness attraction for the Nigerian citizens. Not lone this, we’re besides going to beryllium moving unneurotic to beforehand probe investigation that volition assistance america execute our mandate.”

He further emphasised NBS’s committedness to ethical information absorption and transparency, adding:

“As the custodian of authoritative statistics, NBS reaffirms its unwavering committedness to information privacy, confidentiality, and integrity passim the collaboration. We adhere to the highest ethical and statistical standards and warrant that the nationalist and our improvement partners tin spot the resulting figures.”

The concern underscores the 3 institutions’ shared committedness to advancing evidence-based planning, enhancing accountability, and promoting citizen-centred work delivery, yet contributing to Nigeria’s efforts toward achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC).