{"id":77448,"date":"2025-10-25T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77448"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:09:10","slug":"fg-doubles-health-insurance-capitation-to-%e2%82%a61450-targets-44-million-nigerians-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/25\/fg-doubles-health-insurance-capitation-to-%e2%82%a61450-targets-44-million-nigerians-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Doubles Health Insurance Capitation to \u20a61,450, Targets 44 Million Nigerians by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has increased the National Health Insurance capitation from \u20a6750 to \u20a61,450 per person to expand access to affordable healthcare and achieve coverage for 44 million Nigerians by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Coordinating Minister of Health, Muhammad Pate, announced the increment on Saturday, describing it as part of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope Agenda and a step toward universal health coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Pate said Nigeria recorded 2.4 million new enrollees in 2024, raising total coverage to about 20 million citizens.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the new rate would enable providers to offer better, more consistent care.<\/p>\n<p>He added that over 120,000 health workers have been trained since 2023, while 2,500 new frontline staff and 4,000 hospital workers have been recruited to strengthen service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Pate also unveiled a One Hour Referral Code to fast-track patient transfers and announced covert monitoring of facilities to prevent denial of treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda &nbsp; The Federal Government has increased the National Health Insurance capitation from \u20a6750 to \u20a61,450 per person to expand access to affordable healthcare and achieve coverage for 44 million Nigerians by 2030. Coordinating Minister of Health, Muhammad Pate, announced the increment on Saturday, describing it as part of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77448","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=77448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77450,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77448\/revisions\/77450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}