{"id":181359,"date":"2024-09-26T23:55:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-payment-for-health-impoverishes-65-percent-of-nigerians-yearly-experts\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T23:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:55:41","slug":"nigeria-how-payment-for-health-impoverishes-65-percent-of-nigerians-yearly-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-payment-for-health-impoverishes-65-percent-of-nigerians-yearly-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: How Payment for Health Impoverishes 65 Percent of Nigerians Yearly &#8211; Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Experts in the health sector have condemned many Nigerians for their poor attitude towards registering for a health insurance scheme, saying a study has shown that payment for health on a yearly basis is making numerous Nigerians poor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The stakeholders explained that this was so because the cost of accessing healthcare, especially surgery, was very expensive, saying with the current economic situation, Nigerians paying for surgery out-of-pocket were financially strained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"62\">Those who spoke at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409260599.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts in the health sector have condemned many Nigerians for their poor attitude towards registering for a health insurance scheme, saying a study has shown that payment for health on a yearly basis is making numerous Nigerians poor. The stakeholders explained that this was so because the cost of accessing healthcare, especially surgery, was very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5060,5731,30543,257,4687,393,6665,10122,6720,254,10108],"class_list":["post-181359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-experts","tag-health","tag-impoverishes","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-payment","tag-percent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-yearly"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}