Some subscribers to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on Thursdays shut down the clinic run by the scheme at the UNIMED Teaching Hospital Akure, Ondo State capital.
They were prostesting poor service delivery by the management of the hospital. They paralysed activities at the clinic, as they chased out all the staff.
The protesters, who were led by the Director, Federal Scholarships Board, Mr
According to Ogunwale, the clinic has not been providing prescribed drugs to enrollees in the past seven months and has also failed to provide doctors, a development he claimed had resulted in the death of many patients.
He said they could no longer tolerate the poor service they were getting from the
Ogunwale called on the NHIS and the Ondo State Government to do the needful in the interest of all enrollees, who relied on the scheme to get health care services.
Chairman,
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