The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has disclosed that no fewer than 1,629 have so far benefited and undergone free fistula surgery treatment across Nigeria.
The Director General of NHIA, Dr. Kelechi Ohiri, while disclosing this at the second steering committee meeting of National Health Insurance Authority, fistula free programme held in Abuja, said the programme which is its six months has already recorded impactful milestones and touched lives of poor women.
“Right now, about 1629 beneficiaries have been verified paid for between the last six months of the launch to date, but that’s just a number that we have verified and paid for.”
“The number of claims submitted is over almost 2000 and as more awareness you know about the program gets out there, we hope that there will be no woman with fistula program that with fistula who will miss out on and so we’re working with facilities, and one of the next steps will be how we engage civil society to make sure that the…
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