The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has advised healthcare service providers against substandard services to its enrollees in order to improve on their health status.
The Nasarawa state coordinator of NHIA, Mrs. Mary Aliu, gave the advice Wednesday, in her opening remark at the NHIA stakeholders’ forum in Lafia, the Nasarawa state capital.
She said the authority would not condone sharp practices while urging service providers to discharge their duties without fear or favour.
The state coordinator said the forum was to educate and sensitize service providers and other stakeholders on the new NHIA Act and discuss way forward for improved health status of Nigerians.
“As we have changed from National Health Insurance Scheme ( NHIS) to National Health Insurance Authority ( NHIA), the NHIA Act was assented by President Muhammadu Buhari in order to achieve universal health coverage and to ensure that every Nigerian has access to quality healthcare at a very affordable rate,” she said.
Aliu also advised healthcare service providers to respect the rights and privileges of enrollees for improved health status of Nigerians.
She commended Prof. Mohammed Sambo, the Director General of NHIA, for keying into different good health policies and programmes that have direct bearing on the health status of Nigerians.
She said NHIA would continue to partner companies on drug production in order to address issue of out of stock and to ensure that quality drugs are supplier, just as she assured of her continuous readiness to partner stakeholders and key into good health policies for improved health status of the people of the state.
Speaking, Executive Secretary, Nasarawa State Health Insurance Agency (NASHIA), Dr. Gaza Gwamna, urged Nigerians to embrace NHIA policies and programmes in the interest of their health and societal development.
Gwamna, who was represented by Mr Abdullahi Ampule Musa, expressed the agency’s readiness to partner stakeholders for quality healthcare services.
