By Asma’u Ahmad
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has expressed its determination to enforce quality standard in health service delivery in hospitals across the country.
Senior Manager, Head Formal Sector of the scheme, Mrs. Nonye Unaegbu, stated this during a sensitisation and awareness programme organised for staff of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Mrs. Unaegbu said the new Executive Secretary of NHIS, Professor Usman Yusuf, was determined to ensure that NHIS worked for all Nigerians and for enrolees to enjoy quality health services in hospitals.
She said the agency had deployed members of staff to various hospitals as part of efforts to ensure compliance with required standards.
She added that the staff members will ensure that enrolees are well treated and that their rights are not trampled upon.
“For example enrolees are supposed to pay only `10 per cent of their prescribed drugs alone and not for the entire treatment because every other cost incurred is covered by the capitation,” she said.
The senior manager said that the Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs) have also been mandated to sensitise Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on the rights and benefits of enrolees.
She warned that the scheme was set to sanction any defaulting hospital or HMO that went against the standard.
