Tinubu approves 80% dialysis subsidy, cuts cost to N12,000 per session President Bola Tinubu has approved a subsidy on kidney dialysis for Nigerians, reducing the cost for Nigerians from N50,000 to N12,000.
This also trended:
The subsidy is existence implemented across the six geopolitical zones at some federal medical institutions.
Participating institutions include the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Ebute-Metta Lagos, the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Jabi, Abuja, the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Owerri, and the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) Maiduguri.
Others are the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abeokuta, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Lagos, the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Azare, University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) Benin, and University of Calabar Teaching (UCTH) Calabar.
The subsidy was launched in January at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital in Bauchi.
This also trended:
According to Hammatu Haruna, the manager-in-charge of the renal centre at the teaching hospital, patients are glad about the subsidy.
“They are paying only N12,000, and our patients are very glad with this initiative, and we have seen improvement, remarkably in patients’ condition,” she reported.
“Patients used to expose it difficult to afford it; even if you inform them the amount, they have to go back and sell something before they can afford to come for dialysis. Some even prefer to stay at home since they cannot afford it.”
She stated 35 patients have benefitted from the scheme since it was launched on January 8 this year, adding that the federal ministry of health has provided adequate resources to ensure the success of the programme.
“We appreciate the federal government of Nigeria; they gave us one dialysis machine; they gave us over 900 dialysers. We have almost everything at hand.
Several cases of kidney failure have recently been disclosed in the news.
In February, the Yobe government disclosed it had deployed 50 health experts to examine the root causes of the spike in kidney failure cases in some parts of the state.
Mahmud Maina, director of the Biomedical Science Research and Training Centre at the Yobe State University, reported the team comprises 50 experts, which include neurology consultants, laboratory scientists, nephrologists, geologists, chemists, echo toxicologists, and collaborators from the UK, US, and Ghana.
This also trended:
Maina stated the team would conduct interviews with 2,000 people in Bade and Damaturu LGAs to determine whether the causes are environmental, lifestyle-related, or genetic.
Regards to TheCable
Category: World-News
Tag: Tinubu approves 80 per cent dialysis subsidy cuts cost to N12000 per session
Written by Author
Published 3/6/2025