Tuesday, August 19, 2025 - President Bola Tinubu has approved a landmark subsidy to ease the cost of kidney dialysis for Nigerians, reducing the cost from the current N50,000 to N12,000.
Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to the President on Policy
Information, disclosed this on his X handle.
He noted that “with this intervention, the price of each
dialysis session has been reduced from N50,000 to just N12,000, bringing relief
to thousands of citizens battling kidney-related diseases.”
According to him, “this subsidy is already being implemented
in major federal hospitals across the six geopolitical zones.”
The hospitals include the Federal Medical Centre (FMC),
Ebute-Metta, Lagos; Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi, Abuja; University
College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan; and the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri.
Others are the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital
(UMTH), Maiduguri; the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta; Lagos University
Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Lagos; Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Azare;
University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Benin; and the University of
Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Calabar.
Bwala disclosed that more federal medical centres and
teaching hospitals will be added before the end of the year to widen access
nationwide.
He recalled that last year, President Tinubu also approved
free caesarean sections (C-sections) for pregnant women in federal hospitals, a
bold step aimed at boosting maternal healthcare and reducing preventable
maternal deaths.
“Together, these measures demonstrate the President’s
Renewed Hope Agenda in action—ensuring that no Nigerian is denied healthcare
because of cost,” he said.
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