Stakeholders in the nation’s health sector have recommended an increase in health insurance funding, from one percent to two percent, at the state level.
The above was part of recommendations made during a one-day multi-stakeholder technical workshop aimed at co-developing and reviewing domestic resource mobilisation strategies for state immunisation and primary health care financing.
In the workshop, organised by non-government organisations such as the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, Gavi, and the Vaccine Network for Disease Control, the stakeholders said that the recommendations made were both for short- and long-term approaches.
Speaking at the event, the CEO of one of the civil society organisations, Chika Oluwakemi Offor of the Vaccine Network for Disease Control, said that the workshop also recommended the involvement of the local government areas (LGAs) and state government in the provision of funds to support primary health care centres in a phased approach.
