HMCAN, IHFM induct new members
03 December 2024 |
3:04 am
The Health and Managed Care Association of Nigeria (HMCAN) and the Institute for Healthcare Finance and Management Limited (IHFM) have conferred fellowships and also inducted new members into the association.
The Health and Managed Care Association of Nigeria (HMCAN) and the Institute for Healthcare Finance and Management Limited (IHFM) have conferred fellowships and also inducted new members into the association.
While 11 members were awarded conferment fellowships, two persons were inducted into the association as full members.
The ceremony took place during HMCAN’s yearly general meeting and IHFM yearly conference and induction in Lagos, with the theme ‘The Future of Health Insurance: How to Prepare for the Changes Ahead.’
HMCAN Chairman, Dr. Leke Oshunniyi, urged the new fellows and inductees to be ethical and exhibit a high level of professionalism.
For the fellows, he said the association has found them worthy, and they must continue to contribute their quota for the association’s uplift.
Performing the rites of conferment and induction of members is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Lifeworth HMO, Dr Raymond Osho.
Speaking on the theme of the event, Director-General of NHIA, Dr Kelechi Ohiri said that Nigeria was progressively on a rapid trajectory towards achieving the Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
He said the goal is to bring millions of Nigerians out of health poverty through coverage expansion, improved equity, quality of care and market efficiency.
He said the authority has to be intentional in reshaping the market structure to achieve effective coverage, disclosing that over 60 per cent of coverage is from the formal sector, while the informal sector is struggling with one per cent.
Ohiri said with a current figure of less than five per cent of the total addressable market for Primary Health Insurance (PHI) in the country, if all critical stakeholders partner to shape the industry and move with the right trajectory, Nigeria could achieve a robust and vibrant PHI market that could drive about 50 per cent of coverage by 2030.
Similarly, Commissioner for Health, Lagos State, Prof. Emmanuel Abayomi, said with about 4,000 public health facilities in the state, 2,000 are registered while the remaining 2,000 are unregistered with about 20,000 alternative practitioners.
He urged the NHIA to strictly enforce compliance, stating that a paltry number of insured citizens in Lagos makes the state vulnerable.
Noting that health is both a security and economic issue, there is a need to rejig the healthcare sector with adequate funding by restoring health to where it was before.
HMCAN’s Oshunniyi said with the current leadership of the NHIA, he was optimistic that Nigeria could achieve the UHC by 2030, where every Nigeria would be under health coverage.
He urged Health Management Organisations (HMOs) to be up and doing to ensure enrollees get quality service, by having a floor of premium of which no one should contend with.
On the theme, he said since the NHIA Act 2022 was passed, HMCAN has identified gaps that needed political solutions, even as it waits for the new guidelines from NHIA, which would set the tone for implementation.
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