{"id":59588,"date":"2025-01-14T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59588"},"modified":"2025-01-14T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T20:02:05","slug":"fg-to-slash-dialysis-costs-by-80-at-fmc-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/14\/fg-to-slash-dialysis-costs-by-80-at-fmc-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"FG to Slash Dialysis Costs by 80% at FMC Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a major relief for kidney disease patients, the Federal Government has announced an 80% subsidy on dialysis treatment at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, disclosed this on Tuesday during the commissioning of a new clinic service building and ward centre at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the initiative aims to make dialysis more accessible and affordable, aligning with the government\u2019s broader healthcare reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis subsidy program, launched in 2024, is already in place in 10 selected federal tertiary health institutions, and FMC Jabi is now a strong candidate to join,\u201d Salako stated.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to ensuring quality healthcare, a key pillar of the Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative (HSRII), which supports President Bola Tinubu\u2019s vision of healthcare as a fundamental right.<\/p>\n<p>Salako further highlighted the administration\u2019s investments in strengthening tertiary healthcare, reducing the need for Nigerians to seek critical medical procedures, such as kidney transplants, abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, FMC Abuja\u2019s Chief Medical Director, Saad Ahmed, revealed that the newly inaugurated facility will enhance healthcare delivery, housing a dialysis and transplantation centre, pathology laboratories, and additional patient wards to ease hospital congestion.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced the acquisition of a neurosurgical operating microscope to improve brain surgery services.<\/p>\n<p>The subsidy initiative marks a significant step toward easing the financial burden of chronic kidney disease patients while bolstering Nigeria\u2019s healthcare capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0 In a major relief for kidney disease patients, the Federal Government has announced an 80% subsidy on dialysis treatment at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abuja. The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, disclosed this on Tuesday during the commissioning of a new clinic service building and ward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,184,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-59588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59590,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59588\/revisions\/59590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}