FG SEEKS WORLD BANK, BILL GATES’ SUPPORT TO FUND NHIS

The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the Federal Government no longer has the resources to fund the National Health Insurance Scheme.

He said the government was seeking funding from the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide better health insurance coverage for Nigerians.

Osinbajo said this at a forum in Minneapolis, the United States, which was attended by Nigerians, according to a statement. He said, “On improving the health budget at the state and federal levels, the focus is on trying to do the National Health Insurance because funding health care through budgeting has proved to be practically impossible. We simply do not have the resources; the states and the Federal Government cannot do enough.

So, the National Health Insurance is a very basic part of it and we are currently working now with the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a proper National Health Insurance Scheme.”

(Punch)