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President-elect Bola Tinubu has targeted providing health care insurance for at least 87 million Nigerians in his first two years in office.
This was announced Monday in Abuja by Oyakhilome Bello, APC United States national youth leader in Abuja.
According to the APC youth leader, Mr Tinubu will ensure that 40 per cent of Nigerians benefit by deploying the mandatory National Health Insurance Scheme, noting that the president-elect planned to achieve this expansion by increasing the financing available for the Basic Health Care Provision Fund and the Vulnerable Group Fund recently established by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The scheme, he added, was to insure the health of vulnerable Nigerians.
Mr Bello added that Mr Tinubu planned to decentralise the social health insurance scheme to bring all Nigerians under a central national scheme to be managed by the National Health Insurance Authority…
