Elochukwu Adibo, a Consultant Biomedical Scientist, on Saturday advised the Federal Government to overhaul the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to reduce the out-of-pocket (OOPs) expenditures of Nigerians.
Adibo, who is also the Laboratory Director at a private diagnostics and medical research firm, made the call in an interview with newsmen in Lagos.
According to him, the scheme has not addressed the needs of the low income earners in the country.
“Nigerians deserve more. Nigerians deserve to have access to healthcare.
“Somebody is ill; he needs an MRI, he needs a CT brain and the doctors are helpless.
“You’re telling a patient who needs to pay like N40,000 to get a CT or N70,000 to get an MRI and you know this patient cannot even buy soap to bathe.
“You’re looking at him dying and you’re just doing some palliative things, which you know is not adding…
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