The Federal Authorities of Nigeria has diminished the price of kidney dialysis from ₦50,000 to ₦12,000 per session, a 76 to 80 per cent subsidy.
This initiative goals to make dialysis extra reasonably priced for hundreds of Nigerians battling kidney-related ailments.
The collaborating hospitals are: Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Ebute-Metta, Lagos, Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi, Abuja, and the College Faculty Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.
The remainder are: Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, College of Maiduguri Instructing Hospital (UMTH), in addition to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta.
Others are: Lagos College Instructing Hospital (LUTH), Lagos,
Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Azare, and the College of Benin Instructing Hospital (UBTH), Benin.
In addition they embody: College of Calabar Instructing Hospital (UCTH), Calabar in addition to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa College Instructing Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi.
This initiative is a part of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, aiming to make sure Nigerians have entry to reasonably priced healthcare.
In Kano State, Mr Tinubu’s 80 per cent dialysis subsidy has led to a big improve in affected person attendance on the Aminu Kano Instructing Hospital (AKTH), Kano.
The intervention, underneath the Renewed Hope Agenda, has slashed the price of dialysis from between N50,000 and N60,000 per session to N12,000, offering aid to indigent kidney sufferers.
Talking on the event, the Deputy Director of Nursing Companies at AKTH, Tijjani Rahim, who can be the Head of the Dialysis Unit, stated the unit now attends to between 22 and 25 sufferers day by day.
He said that the spike within the variety of sufferers adopted the implementation of the federal authorities’s subsidy programme, making AKTH one of many first hospitals to profit from the scheme.
Throughout a go to to the AKTH Dialysis Centre, some sufferers expressed gratitude for the intervention, describing it as life-saving.
A affected person, Sani Musa, recalled paying between N54,000 and N60,000 per dialysis session earlier than the subsidy.
He stated the fee was later diminished to N20,000 and now stands at N12,000.
One other affected person, Mamuda Aliyu, stated the discount from N60,000 to N12,000 per session had enabled him to proceed remedy.
Equally, Hafiza Isa, who can be present process dialysis, confirmed that she beforehand paid N60,000, then N55,000, N45,000, and later N20,000 earlier than the present price was launched.
The sufferers, nevertheless, appealed to the federal authorities to contemplate making dialysis remedy solely free to additional ease their burden.
Additionally talking, the Chief Medical Director of AKTH, Abdurrahman Sheshe, stated the subsidised dialysis programme had commenced on the hospital.
In accordance with him, the hospital has acquired consumables to cater for 1,000 dialysis periods underneath the initiative.
Mr Sheshe spoke throughout the launch of the Nationwide Emergency Medical Companies and Ambulance Scheme (NEMSAS) on the hospital.
He defined that the NEMSAS programme would supply 48 hours of free medical care and emergency transportation for pregnant ladies, kids, accident victims, and different important circumstances.
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He appealed to the Federal Ministry of Well being and Social Welfare and philanthropists for help to maintain the programmes.
The dialysis subsidy is a part of the federal authorities’s broader well being sector reforms, which additionally embody the Primary Well being Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) and NEMSAS.
It’s aimed toward strengthening emergency response and decreasing the monetary burden on sufferers.
NAN experiences that on 21 August 2025, the federal authorities authorised the dialysis subsidy scheme for 11 federal tertiary well being establishments throughout Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones.
(NAN)
