Africa Business Radio

The Minister of Health Dr Osagie Ehanire says the federal government was currently pushing for a law on a mandatory health insurance scheme in Nigeria, as part of reforms as well as to revolutionise funding in the sector. The Minister says the government was implementing innovative digital health technology reforms and building a network of National Primary Health Care centres across the country to take healthcare delivery to the grassroots. Ehanire says models of the new Primary Healthcare Centres designs had been sent to all state governors adding that each PHC would have staff quarters, assured water supply, solar-powered aggregates and a sound complement of human resources for health. He says that PHCs are the most important building blocks of the country’s health system and should be prioritised by all states as the platform attain Universal Health Coverage.