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The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), conceptualised as a strategy to ensure that Nigerians have easy and affordable access to quality health care delivery, is no doubt due for retooling. This is not just for the purpose of tackling the challenges besetting it, but to unshackle the concept in itself, in order to make it truly effective in the provision of universal health care.
When the scheme became operational in 2005, even though the law that established it was signed way back in May 1999, the then president, Olusegun Obasanjo, gave a presidential mandate that was to ensure that by 2015, the NHIS should have had universal coverage of all Nigerians through the social health insurance.
Physically-challenged group lament difficulty in accessing healthcare in Abuja
Over 4000 physically-challenged residents of Angwa Guragu in Karonmajiji community along Airport Road, Abuja, claim they face difficulty in accessing healthcare.
The residents, alongside their able children and relatives numbering over 6000 told this newspaper they live in fear, especially at night, should they have any problem with their health.
This was even as the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Health Care Services, Muhammad Usman, lamented that Nigeria was the only African country with low budgetary allocation to the health sector.
Usman made this known in Abuja during the second international public health conference with the theme “Trending Issues in Public Health Services Delivery”, organised by the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
Recently medical doctors serving in various hospitals in Anambra State gathered at the Dame Virgy Etiaba Centre, Umudim, Nnewi, Anambra State, for a reunion. The doctors, under the auspices of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Anambra State chapter, were in the city for their annual general meeting and scientific conference. The event also featured the second memorial lecture of Emeritus Prof. Festus Aghagbo Nwako, with the theme "Medical Practice in Nigeria: Current Challenges and the Way Forward:' 
Nigeria suffers economic loss yearly due to medical tourism. It also causes loss of lives as some Nigerians travel to some countries without proper information about the doctors qualifications and experience and the hospitals in where they practice.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed an electronic solution using hospital-based study on 10,000 pregnant women in Nigeria and Uganda to reduce the high labour-related child and maternal death rate in sub-Saharan Africa.
A British man with HIV undergoing a pioneering treatment to cure him of the disease has shown “remarkable” progress, doctors have told a newspaper.
Scientists treating the 44-year-old patient are now hopeful of a breakthrough in what has been described as “one of the first serious attempts at a full cure for HIV”.
Bridging the Divide between Finance and Health Care - Health Care Federation of Nigeria (HFN) Partners with the Largest Medical conference in West Africa to Provide Financial Training to Nigerian Health Care Professionals
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Healthcare and Medical Entrepreneurs in Nigeria are often faced with multiple challenges. Asides from compliance and regulatory issues, and the mandate as a health professional to provide stellar services which meets the needs of patients, health care practices must essentially operate as a profitable business ventures if they are to keep their doors open to the public.
The Health Care Federation of Nigeria (HFN) is an active coalition of Nigerian Private Sector professionals whose mission it is to improve healthcare indices and create an environment where Nigerians can receive affordable and accessible healthcare of the highest quality.
In partnership with Medic West Africa, the largest medical exhibition in West Africa, which brings together over 3,500 healthcare professionals and host more than 280 of the world's leading healthcare suppliers, manufacturers and service providers, HFN will be providing one of 6 educational conference tracks will take place during the exhibition.
Minister of health Prof. Isaac Adewale on Wednesday warned Medical Laboratory Scientists and other health professionals not to harbor unregistered practitioners and other quacks among them.HFN Provides Specialised Training for HealthCare Entrepreneurs- Bridging the Gap Between Finance and HealthCare- Meet the Facilitators
At Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN) our mission is not only to act as an advocacy coalition on behalf of Nigerian healthcare professionals but also to provide the necessary support for private healthcare sector itself. We understand the challenges faced by this sector, specifically in terms of finance. That is why we have partnered with Medic West Africa, the largest medical exhibition in West Africa and Arkounting a financial advisory and management consulting firm which provides outsourced financial management and management consulting services, to provide this training specifically.
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The United Nations Population Fund says Nigeria requires about $16m annually to boost reproductive health services.United Nations Nigeria requires $16m to boost reproductive health annually, says UNFPA
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says Nigeria requires about 16 million dollars annually to boost reproductive health services.
Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, the Executive Director of UNFPA, disclosed this in a statement issued by Ms Beatrice Mutali, the Deputy Regional Director, West and Central Africa Region.
The Kano State Government has approved over N48 million for the purchase of drugs and equipment to combat the current Malaria scourge in the state.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Kabiru Getso, disclosed this on Thursday when he laid the foundation stone for the upgrading of Getso Primary Health Care Centre at Getso town.
4 Reasons why every Health Care Professional should attend the HFN Specialized Training Workshop for Healthcare Entrepreneurs- Bridging the Gap between Finance and HealthCare
The primary function of every business is to achieve sustainability and continuity. This is the same across every sector. But what makes a business successful? What are the key metrics for measuring financial businesses success and what factors contribute to this? How can Nigerian health care practices structure their businesses to attract funding and investment? These are some of the questions that will be answered during our workshop- Bridging the Gap between Finance and Healthcare
