We flushed out 23,000 ghost enrollees – NHIS boss

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Executive Secretary of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Usman Yusuf, said the agency had flushed out about 23,000 ghost enrollees in the system.

Yusuf disclosed this on Tuesday during the formal presentation of the ISO 20000 Certification to Galaxy Backbone by the British High Commission in Abuja, saying the feat was made possible through the deployment of ICT with a crack team from the Galaxy Backbone, NIMC, NigComSat and the EFCC.

With this development, he said the agency had saved the country millions of naira that would have gone to the ghost enrollees.

He however, regretted that the Health management Organizations, HMO had launched an attack to oust him from office, who he said were dissatisfied with his approach.

‘‘When I came on board, my frustration was information Technology, IT because without IT, it is difficult to dispense the money given to us to qualified…

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