Why NHIS performance is poor in Nigeria – Executive Secretary
He promised through his administration’s “rebranding agenda” to reform and transition the scheme to a result-oriented ‘new NHIS’.
He said the Act makes the scheme non-mandatory, thereby causing minimal coverage. “If it was made compulsory, by now we will not only be talking about maximum coverage but also high-quality service delivery.” A bill to repeal and replace the NHIS Act was passed by the 8th National Assembly in April and forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari. But he has neither signed it nor declined assent.Mr Sambo, a professor, also said the internal leadership rancour in the NHIS is another factor for its failure.
Their complaints ranged from lack of attention by hospitals, delayed attention, low drug dispensing to enrollees and sometimes rejection of patients because of the inability of HMOs to meet their payment obligations to hospitals. “This is why I want this meeting to be as interactive as possible because we can no longer sit in our office and generate solutions for uniformed problems.”
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