VIDEO: Four Million Nigerians Enrolled In NHIS In Two Years, Says Pate

The Coordinating Minister of Health & Social Welfare, Ali Pate, has disclosed that four million Nigerians have enrolled in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

Pate, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, added that the Federal Ministry of Health is working with state Health insurance authorities to reform the NHIS.

He said: “In the last two years, we’ve seen expansion of the basic healthcare provision fund, which provides for the vulnerable groups, and within those resources, hundreds of thousands of poor, vulnerable women, children have been covered through that to get primary healthcare services.

“We are reforming the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), working with state Health insurance authorities. We’ve been able to expand enrollment in Health insurance across our country. Over the last two years of this administration, four million Nigerians have enrolled in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).”

Leveraging on the President Bola Tinubu’s administration gains, Pate stressed that for almost 25 years of Health insurance in Nigeria, only 16 million Nigerians were enrolled when this administration assumed office.

“For almost 25 years of Health insurance in Nigeria, there were 16 million enrollees when this administration came, literally, less than a million a year, but in two years, four million Nigerians have enrolled in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS),” Pate said.

“If we had been doing this for the past few years, Nigeria would have had more than 100 million enrollees.”

Watch the full chat below: