The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on Saturday said the poor performance of the National Mobile Health Insurance Programme is primarily due to exorbitant charges and red tape in the system.

 

NHIS Acting Executive Secretary, Mr Femi Akingbade while speaking to journalists said  administrative charges and bureaucracy among identity managers have slowed the spread of the National Mobile Health Insurance Programme since its launched in 2014.

 

 

Akingbade stated that NHIS had not been optimally providing the mobile health insurance payments and fees coming to them from agreed distribution of funds were being sucked by administrative charges on mobile network operators.

 

"One of the things that is happening is that we are having delivery failure because the stakeholders seem not to totally agree with the payments and fees that are coming to them based on the agreed distribution of the funds that are being contributed," Akingbade, who was appointed acting executive secretary this April, said.

 

Paul Obi 

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