NHIA-branded Drugs will be Prescribed at Hospitals – Official
National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) plans to make sure that NHIA-branded medications are provided to medical facilities and prescribed to NHIA enrollees.
Executive Secretary of NHIA Prof. Mohammed Sambo made the revelation on Tuesday in Abuja at the seventeenth instalment of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration scorecard series, which featured the minister of health.
The NHIA medicine supply plan has reportedly been founded, and the committee is currently working to decide which businesses would be producing medications for Nigerians under the NHIA brand, according to Sambo.
He further stated that participants in the medicine production process made up the initiative.
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He said that the medications on that list would be generic because no one would include branded names because they were protected by patents, despite the fact that, according to science, each drug has its own chemical components.
However, he went on to say that every drug that will be created would have that ingredient and that all medications found in medical facilities would function similarly to branded medications.
Regarding the strength of health insurance in a developing country like Nigeria, the secretary claimed that cross subsidisation gave health insurance its strength and potency.
In order for people who cannot currently afford health insurance to get healthcare, health insurance brings risks and resources together. The risks posed by the more vulnerable group of the population are combined with the resources of both the wealthy and the poor, and the funds from the pool are utilised to cover their medical expenses as and when they arise. So that people who are more susceptible to getting sick might benefit from the health insurance fund, there will be cross-subsidisation.
