Igbobi Hospital Seeks Improvement in Health Insurance, Services

The management of the National Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi (NOHI), Lagos, has called for efforts to boost the number of enrollees in the nation's health insurance scheme, noting that such improvement would help to defray the cost treatment of most patients in need of othopaedic care.

Speaking recently in Lagos during press briefing to herald the 70th year anniversary celebration of the hospital, NOHI Medical Director, Dr Olurotimi Odunubi, added that such improvement would also help to reduce the level of non-recoverable debts among various patients in the hospital.

Odunubi put the non-coverable debt in the hospital between N25 million to N30 million owed by various patients, adding that the phenomenon " has affected our services in a way."

Odunubi stated that in spite of the several challenges that have confronted the hospital in the past seven decades, the hospital has done tremendously