{"id":205922,"date":"2025-08-30T22:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-dialysis-subsidy-in-nigeria-a-lifeline-or-a-short-term-fix\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:39:22","slug":"nigeria-dialysis-subsidy-in-nigeria-a-lifeline-or-a-short-term-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-dialysis-subsidy-in-nigeria-a-lifeline-or-a-short-term-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Dialysis Subsidy in Nigeria &#8211; a Lifeline or a Short-Term Fix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">President Bola Ahmed Tinubu&#8217;s decision to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/health.gov.ng\/fg-subsidises-cost-of-kidney-dialysis-in-federal-hospitals-across-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a substantial subsidy<\/a> for kidney dialysis is a laudable and compassionate move that offers immediate relief to thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/chronic-kidney-disease\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20354521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigerians battling kidney disease.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"95\">By reducing the cost of each dialysis session from \u20a650,000 averagely to as low as \u20a612,000, the government is taking a monumental financial burden that has pushed many families into poverty and forced countless patients to abandon life-saving therapy. Dialysis, which is normally a weekly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508290461.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>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu&#8217;s decision to introduce a substantial subsidy for kidney dialysis is a laudable and compassionate move that offers immediate relief to thousands of Nigerians battling kidney disease. By reducing the cost of each dialysis session from \u20a650,000 averagely to as low as \u20a612,000, the government is taking a monumental financial burden that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,33560,8037,14266,257,4687,393,20201,254,16790],"class_list":["post-205922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dialysis","tag-fix","tag-lifeline","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-shortterm","tag-south-africa-today","tag-subsidy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/205922","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=205922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}