ODSIP Newsletter Vol. 1. No. 9

As the contemporary world continues to break development barriers in healthcare delivery, health insurance scheme has proven to be one of the most efficient and sustainable means of health care financing across the world. It, thus, remains part of government’s commitment to fulfilling the Goal Three of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – “Good health and well being” and a strategy for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Contributory Health Insurance seeks to drastically reduce the burden of high out-of-pocket expenses of the citizenry on health (95% of Nigerians) based on (FMOH, 2018; 2022).