Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo recently claimed that healthcare funding in Nigeria cannot be handled alone by the government.
This was expressed by Osinbajo at the National Primary Health Care Development Agency’s primary healthcare summit on Thursday (NPHCDA).
‘Re-imagining: 
Evolving a Resilient Platform for Achieving our National and Global Health Goals in a Peri-COVID Era,’ is the summit’s topic.
In his remarks, the vice-president emphasized the importance of prioritizing primary health care and encouraging private sector involvement.
“In dealing with out-of-pocket expenses, I think we clearly need compulsory health insurance where premiums for certain categories of vulnerable groups are paid by the government,” he said.
“There’s no way that healthcare funding can be paid by the government budget alone. It is simply impossible. The size of the federal government budget itself is so constrained that there is absolutely no way that we can expect to fund healthcare by just budgets.
“So, healthcare insurance is an important pool of resources for funding healthcare on the scale that will be required for a country of 200 million people or more.”
Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire also spoke at the occasion, saying that primary healthcare spending should be increased to help needy people.
Primary healthcare services, according to the minister, are in desperate need of revitalization. “by ensuring their availability at designated communities”, as well as by providing “at least one functional PHC per ward, along with an adequate complement of human resources for health, comprising at the least of nurses, skilled birth attendants and other staff for basic healthcare”.
“Strengthening PHCs not only assures better population health but reduces the workload on secondary and tertiary healthcare levels and also the catastrophic out-of-pocket patient spending on health,” he added.
“To achieve sustainable development goal targets, PHC funding has to expand to reduce out-of-pocket costs for healthcare to less than 30 percent.”
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