₦airaland Forum

Five months after President Bola Tinubu approved 80 percent subsidy on kidney dialysis for Nigerians, reducing the cost from N50,000 to N12,000, the subsidy regime is yet to take effect in hospitals across the country.
Sources told The Guardian that the federal government has not made funds available to the hospitals for the implementation of the subsidy.

The subsidy, to be implemented across 11 federal hospitals, is aimed at easing the financial burden on patients with kidney disease. Participating institutions include the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Ebute-Metta Lagos, the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Jabi, Abuja, the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Owerri, and the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) Maiduguri.

Others are the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abeokuta, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Lagos, the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Azare, University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) Benin, and University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) Calabar.

However, inquiries by The Guardian revealed patients undergoing dialysis still pay between N35,000.00 and N100,000.00 per session in some of the participating hospitals. At the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), N73,000.00 is charged as an initial fee for dialysis while subsequent fees per dialysis are N43,500.

The Guardian checks showed that the price change has not been effected at the Federal Medical Centre Jabi as a session costs N35,000.00 but does not include central line, also known as a central venous catheter (CVC) or central venous line (CVL).

At FMC Abeokuta, The Guardian learnt that dialysis at the facility is N100,000.00 for the first session, while subsequent ones are between N60,000 to N70,000 per session.

A source at FMC Ebute-Metta told The Guardian that a circular announcing the dialysis subsidy was initially shared at the hospital, prompting its implementation, but the facility later reverted to the old rate due to inadequate funds.

When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, Funmi Adetuyibi, told The Guardian that as at the last revolving committee meeting, the price agreed upon for dialysis was N17,000.00, adding that the amount will still be reviewed.She stated that the federal government supplied three dialysis machines and consumables to the hospital.

Adetuyibi explained that out of the three, only one has been installed and is currently functional, adding that the Head of the Nephrology Department has called the consultant that supplied the machines to come and install the remaining two machines.

Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, Olusegun, had in a post on Monday via his X handle, Daddy DO @DO Olusegun, said that Federal Medical Centres all around the six geo-political zones, dialysis costs N12,000 per session under this administration. “Please verify,” he added.

This elicited criticisms from X users who faulted his post, insisting that hospitals are not charging the N12,000 yet.

TG OMORI @boy_director, while countering the post, wrote: “A Dialysis is about 100k plus per session, sometimes you need 3 sessions in a week, minimum wage is 70k. Knowing these facts brought me tears in the hospital cause no hope for the common man.”

Another X user, in his handle The_Bearded_Dr_Sina, posted a WhatsApp chat with an unidentified person and it reads:
“Please I want to confirm, is it true they do Dialysis for 12k in UCH? No, Owena is currently not functioning due to water issues. But the current price is farrrrrrr from 12k. What is the estimated price for Dialysis in UCH per session?

First session is 80+ includes materials, includes cannulation, depends on the machine being used. Subsequently, 42,000 – 48,000. Nigerians stay with me.”

Racoon:
https://guardian.ng/features/health/tinubus-80-dialysis-subsidy-yet-to-be-implemented-five-months-after-approval/

Nozarashi:
The question should be directed to the Medical directors of those institutions unless you want Tinubu to go down there, collect the payments and issue receipts himself.

Nozarashi:
The question should be directed to the Medical directors of those institutions unless you want Tinubu to go down there, collect the payments and issue receipts himself.

Nozarashi:
The question should be directed to the Medical directors of those institutions unless you want Tinubu to go down there, collect the payments and issue receipts himself.

Softmirror:
It means you have been short changed. If you pay more.

Mindlog:
Have you or any of your relatives paid the N12K for dialysis, in any of the FMCs?

Nozarashi:
The question should be directed to the Medical directors of those institutions unless you want Tinubu to go down there, collect the payments and issue receipts himself.

anonimi:
Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC

January 19, 2015

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.

On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.

But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.

It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.

https://www.thecable.ng/petrol-never-cost-n70-per-litre-says-apc/

Racoon:
https://guardian.ng/features/health/tinubus-80-dialysis-subsidy-yet-to-be-implemented-five-months-after-approval/

Zackattack:
Somehow, they are still going to win the 2027 elections.

Only if some set of smart Nigerians can develop a strategy on how to outsmart these politicians that the masses obviously do not want.

How are we even sleeping on the fact that they are still winning elections left, right, center 🤷🏻‍♂️

anonimi:
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.

He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.

The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

― Bertolt Brecht

Softmirror:
Do you need receipts for verification?! My advice to anyone is to go back and collect their change.