The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Healthcare Services to investigate alleged mismanagement of funds in the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). The resolution was reached on Tuesday after the adoption of a motion moved by Esosa Iyawe. In the motion, Iyawe said the NHIA, formerly known as National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS),
has witnessed decline in quality due to mismanagement. He stated that “despite the huge budgetary allocations, records have shown that only a negligible 3% of persons in the formal sector have access to health insurance.
” Mr Iyawe said the officials of the NHIA are conniving with Health Maintenance Organisations to embezzle the fund. He said “the implementation of the scheme had been mired with corruption, lack of transparency and accountability, irregularities among HMOs and ill-treatment of enrollees by healthcare providers.” The motion was adopted unanimously without debate by the House.
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