The World Bank Group says that the Basic Health Care Provision Fund is an important part of reforms in the health sector that will help Nigeria increase access to quality healthcare services.
The Bank said that the fund would also ensure that Nigerians do not face financial impoverishment as a result of medical spending.
The Senior Health Economist, Health Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank Group, Sarah Alkenbrack said this at a four-day workshop organised by the Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja. The workshop was organised for 18 states on the need to support health financing arrangement at the national level.
Alkenbrack said that the reform would take the country closer to the goal of Universal Health Coverage, UHC which most countries were striving to achieve as part of the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs of 2030.
She said that an important part of the design was the trade-offs made between the population, services, and the share of the direct costs covered, as represented by the “UHC Cube’’.
