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This initiative is part of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, aiming to ensure Nigerians have access to affordable healthcare.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has reduced the cost of kidney dialysis from ₦50,000 to ₦12,000 per session, a 76 to 80 per cent subsidy.
This initiative aims to make dialysis more affordable for thousands of Nigerians battling kidney-related diseases.

The participating hospitals are: Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Ebute-Metta, Lagos, Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi, Abuja, and the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.

The rest are: Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), as well as the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta.

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

They also include: University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Calabar as well as the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi.

This initiative is part of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, aiming to ensure Nigerians have access to affordable healthcare.

In Kano State, Mr Tinubu’s 80 per cent dialysis subsidy has led to a significant increase in patient attendance at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Kano.

The intervention, under the Renewed Hope Agenda, has slashed the cost of dialysis from between N50,000 and N60,000 per session to N12,000, providing relief to indigent kidney patients.

Speaking on the development, the Deputy Director of Nursing Services at AKTH, Tijjani Rahim, who is also the Head of the Dialysis Unit, said the unit now attends to between 22 and 25 patients daily.

He stated that the spike in the number of patients followed the implementation of the federal government’s subsidy programme, making AKTH one of the first hospitals to benefit from the scheme.

During a visit to the AKTH Dialysis Centre, some patients expressed gratitude for the intervention, describing it as life-saving.

A patient, Sani Musa, recalled paying between N54,000 and N60,000 per dialysis session before the subsidy.

He said the cost was later reduced to N20,000 and now stands at N12,000.

Another patient, Mamuda Aliyu, said the reduction from N60,000 to N12,000 per session had enabled him to continue treatment.

Similarly, Hafiza Isa, who is also undergoing dialysis, confirmed that she previously paid N60,000, then N55,000, N45,000, and later N20,000 before the current rate was introduced.

The patients, however, appealed to the federal government to consider making dialysis treatment entirely free to further ease their burden.

Also speaking, the Chief Medical Director of AKTH, Abdurrahman Sheshe, said the subsidised dialysis programme had commenced at the hospital.

According to him, the hospital has received consumables to cater for 1,000 dialysis sessions under the initiative.

Mr Sheshe spoke during the launch of the National Emergency Medical Services and Ambulance Scheme (NEMSAS) at the hospital.

He explained that the NEMSAS programme would provide 48 hours of free medical care and emergency transportation for pregnant women, children, accident victims, and other critical cases

He appealed to the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and philanthropists for support to sustain the programmes.

The dialysis subsidy is part of the federal government’s broader health sector reforms, which also include the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) and NEMSAS.

It is aimed at strengthening emergency response and reducing the financial burden on patients.
NAN reports that on 21 August 2025, the federal government approved the dialysis subsidy scheme for 11 federal tertiary health institutions across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/health/health-news/827351-fgs-dialysis-subsidy-bolsters-patients-turnout-at-kano-hospital.html

Let's wait to hear what the finishing specialist have to say about this, but first, let's read what his bitter followers have to say.

zero8zero:
Let's wait to hear what the finishing specialist have to say about this, but first, let's read what his bitter followers have to say.

Lol, I don't know how, I just bursted into laughter..

-Kiss the truth!

You will never find those naysayers come out to applaud His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)

They will tell you it’s fake or audio dialysis.

Never seen lots so eager to see their country fail.

May God continue to protect His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)

Peter obi goons will be sad 😭

TINUBU winner 🏆

Though am not BAT fan,he tried on these.

FG is paying subsidy on health, better a subsidy on health than the fraudulent fuel subsidy.
The northerners genuinely takes seriously every socio political welfare programs, whether locally funded or foreign funded. They own it believing it's their rights as citizens. The leaders, the media particularly sensitize the people at the grassroots to embrace these programs and take advantage of them. Unlike in the South, where most of these programs are being tagged "propaganda", "audio". Especially in the SE, where they had to beg the youths to enroll for NELFUND, and when they're lagging behind, they complain of being marginalized. The Army would have to beg them to enroll and when they lag behind in the top lists of military cadre, they complain of being marginalized.
I hope this initiative will not be sabotaged in the south. An example where Government declared free NIMC registration but the staffs were making people pay for it just because of greed.

-Kiss the truth!

zero8zero:
Let's wait to hear what the finishing specialist have to say about this, but first, let's read what his bitter followers have to say.

Their eardrums is blocked to positive news but if e reach negative news their ears will stand up.

Don't mind these APC people how can a whole FMC have a total of 12 dialysis machines and only 2 belong to the federal government.

People come from over 2 or 3 other states to use the ZONED subsidized machines only to end up seeing a looooooong line of people waiting to use N12kbto do dialysis . . . Will you wait and risk your life for your turn to reach than go ahead and pay the usual N60k that pay for the 'uncrowded' state dialysis machines?

Imagine a whole federal government only importing below 100 machines for a population of over 200 million people to manage in the country to enjoy their 'Trojan' subsidy

If Una like go dey find federal government machine, if the kidney no kpai you for line before e reach your turn we go see after the treatment make I buy you better chop 🤗

Only one center in the whole southeast...?

CoronaVirusPro:
You will never find those naysayers come out to applaud His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)

They will tell you it’s fake or audio dialysis.

Never seen lots so eager to see their country fail.

May God continue to protect His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)

y'all will write nonsense and start praising the nonsense u wrote.
Go to any FMC and check if this nonsense is true

Some people will still complain. In their view, the money used to subsidize the dialysis should have been used to build more baby factories and fake drugs manufacturing shops.

zero8zero:
Let's wait to hear what the finishing specialist have to say about this, but first, let's read what his bitter followers have to say.

They can verify this by going to develop illnesses that require dialysis so that they can take themselves to the hospital to verify FG's claims

bigpicture001:
Only one center in the whole southeast...?

Develop your own illness first and let's see if the line in your region is long or short.

This is a good Initiative but more can be done about increasing the number of centres. Ideally the minimum should be one institution per state.

SeeWahala:
Don't mind these APC people how can a whole FMC have a total of 12 dialysis machines and only 2 belong to the federal government.

People come from over 2 or 3 other states to use the ZONED subsidized machines only to end up seeing a looooooong line of people waiting to use N12kbto do dialysis . . . Will you wait and risk your life for your turn to reach than go ahead and pay the usual N60k that pay for the 'uncrowded' state dialysis machines?

Imagine a whole federal government only importing below 100 machines for a population of over 200 million people to manage in the country to enjoy their 'Trojan' subsidy

If Una like go dey find federal government machine, if the kidney no kpai you for line before e reach your turn we go see after the treatment make I buy you better chop 🤗

U dey always wail as usual 😂

YourKarma:
y'all will write nonsense and start praising the nonsense u wrote.
Go to any FMC and check if this nonsense is true

U don go any FMC confirm??


If it's negative news, it's always okay by you 😜

See as thread scanty because no be bad news, Obidients are MIA

PDPdestroyer:
See as thread scanty because no be bad news, Obidients are MIA

Their wailing is not because they love the country, it is because their own brother is not the one in power.

Welcome development from the FG

CoronaVirusPro:
You will never find those naysayers come out to applaud His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)

They will tell you it’s fake or audio dialysis.

Never seen lots so eager to see their country fail.

May God continue to protect His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)

Why should impoverished Nigerians need a dialysis machine? What is the sudden cause?

Ask yourself self who benefits from a population of people who become too sick to vote or hold a bad government accountable.

If you think dialysis machine is good for Nigerians, show us a video of you using one, afterall it has been subsidized.

A govt subsidzing slow death for it's citizens is a good thing in your books.

SeeWahala:
Don't mind these APC people how can a whole FMC have a total of 12 dialysis machines and only 2 belong to the federal government.

People come from over 2 or 3 other states to use the ZONED subsidized machines only to end up seeing a looooooong line of people waiting to use N12kbto do dialysis . . . Will you wait and risk your life for your turn to reach than go ahead and pay the usual N60k that pay for the 'uncrowded' state dialysis machines?

Imagine a whole federal government only importing below 100 machines for a population of over 200 million people to manage in the country to enjoy their 'Trojan' subsidy

If Una like go dey find federal government machine, if the kidney no kpai you for line before e reach your turn we go see after the treatment make I buy you better chop 🤗

Abeg which hospital did you visit that you saw is only 2 that is subsidize?

Paramount01:
Abeg which hospital did you visit that you saw is only 2 that is subsidize?

Get up and go to the nearest one close to you and count it

SeeWahala:
Get up and go to the nearest one close to you and count it

I have been to 1 that is uniben,I saw bauchi testimony on line and likewise this ,so that go contrary to 2 you just mention

Paramount01:
I have been to 1 that is uniben,I saw bauchi testimony on line and likewise this ,so that go contrary to 2 you just mention

So what was your count? How many did you see?