What the next WHO director-general must learn from Nigeria’s health reforms, By Chinedu Moghalu

Premium Times18 October 2026, 11:15 UTCNigeria

By October 2026, the National Health Insurance Authority reported that 80,000 women had received emergency maternal care by August; insurance enrolment exceeded 23 million by September. The transferable lesson is a method of accountability: follow allocations through releases to services, examine the quality of those services, and ask whether households can afford them. WHO can […] The post What the next WHO director-general must learn from Nigeria’s health reforms, By Chinedu Moghalu appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

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