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The National Health
Insurance Scheme says it has registered about five million federal
civil servants, representing about 95 per cent of the target
population.

Its executive
secretary, Dogo Muhammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Abuja on Wednesday that the figure covered family members of the civil
servants.

He said that the scheme had stabilised and that it had attained the target population given to it by government.

“We all appreciate
that NHIS has stabilised both in the target population we were given,
that is, the federal government employees and their families. We have
captured over 95 per cent of that and we have just been doing the
mop-up or when new people are employed, we have to register them,” Mr.
Muhammed said.

He further explained that the scheme had been experiencing some challenges in getting to the states.

Mr. Muhammed said
that they are working hard to ensure that the Act establishing it was
amended to accommodate other sectors and also to make it compulsory for
all.