Nigeria’s first national health insurance law, enacted more than two decades ago, largely failed to protect the country’s vast informal workforce and left about 90 percent of citizens without coverage, health industry executives and policy stakeholders said on Tuesday. The gaps in the 1999 law have become a central focus of reforms now being rolled out under the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Act 2022, which seeks to expand health coverage to millions of Nigerians who were previously excluded from the system. According to stak
Nigeria’s first national health insurance law, enacted more than two decades ago, largely failed to protect the country’s vast informal workforce and left about 90 percent of citizens without coverage, health industry executives and policy stakeholders said on Tuesday. The gaps in the 1999 law have become a central focus of reforms now being rolled out under the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Act 2022, which seeks to expand health coverage to millions of Nigerians who were previously excluded from the system. According to stak