{"id":74921,"date":"2025-09-04T16:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74921"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:39:44","slug":"tinubus-reforms-enable-sustainable-health-financing-edun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/04\/tinubus-reforms-enable-sustainable-health-financing-edun\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu\u2019s Reforms Enable Sustainable Health Financing -Edun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Wale Edun says President Bola Tinubu\u2019s reforms have created space for sustainable health financing and improved access to care.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the National Health Financing Policy Dialogue in Abuja, Edun highlighted subsidy removal, fiscal consolidation, and tax reforms as steps that boosted reserves, reduced inflation, and doubled state allocations, enabling greater investment in health and education.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that stronger private sector involvement is vital, while Senate Health Committee Chair, Sen. Ipalibo Banigo, pledged legislative backing for universal health coverage.<\/p>\n<p>She disclosed that over 6,000 Nigerians benefited from the Vulnerable Group Fund in 2024 and announced plans for a Catastrophic Health Fund for patients with costly illnesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; Finance Minister Wale Edun says President Bola Tinubu\u2019s reforms have created space for sustainable health financing and improved access to care. Speaking at the National Health Financing Policy Dialogue in Abuja, Edun highlighted subsidy removal, fiscal consolidation, and tax reforms as steps that boosted reserves, reduced inflation, and doubled state allocations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1756,1718,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-finance","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74921","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74923,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74921\/revisions\/74923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}