Health Policy Research Group an (NGO),has urged the Federal Government to resuscitate the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) free Maternal and Child Health programme to address the nation’s high mortality rate.
Dr Felix Obi, a Researcher with the group made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja.
Obi who identified the programme as NHIS-MDGs free maternal health programme, attributed the nation’s high mortality on the collapse of the programme , describing women and children as accounting for the nation’s highest burden due to their vulnerability.
He however said that scaling up the programme would go a long way in ensuring drastic reduction in the nation’s mortality rate.
“Where we have problem in Nigeria is women dying while bearing children, so if we must reduce women and childhood mortality rate, we have to make available services needed by women of reproductive age and children.
“We have to prioritise implementation of the National Health Act which stipulates that Nigerians should have access to minimum basic package of health which is universal health coverage,’’ Obi said.

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