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Published 21 February 2021
In this interview with NIKE POPOOLA, the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, Ultimate Health Management Services, Mr Lekan Ewenla, speaks on the challenge of covering all Nigerians under the National Health Insurance Scheme
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number of enrollees under the National Health Insurance Scheme is still very low since the law was passed in the country. What is responsible for the slow growth?
The first law that was passed in the country, which is the Act 35 of 1999, focused strictly on the formal sector. The formal sector comprises the public sector and the organised private sector. And we all know that the entire population of those that are working in the formal sector as we speak is less than 15 per cent. Out of that, less than 15 per cent are civil servants working in all the states of the federation and the local governments. So, they were not covered. This scheme started with the federal civil s ....

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