The management of the Nigeria Health Insurance Authority yesterday entered into an agreement with four institutions in the country for the training and capacity development of its staff and other health practitioners in the health insurance ecosystem.
“To this end, we are partnering with the Result for Development group with sponsorship from the Bill and Milinder Gates Foundation to package what we called the NHIA Leadership Development programme,” he said. “So today we are signing a Memoradum of understanding with four institutions for a three- year leadership training programme lasting over two to three-year duration,” he said.
Mohammed said the leadership development programme was a stop gap arrangement meant to serve the immediate training needs in the health insurance sector. The Country Representative of Result for Development group, Dr. Hope Uweja said the objective of the MoU is to provide technical assistance to the NHIA, enhance the knowledge and capacity of its staff so as to be able to achieve universal health coverage for Nigeria.