FG disbursed N249.6bn to BHCPF in 3 years – Minister

FG disbursed N249.6bn to BHCPF in 3 years – Minister (2)

By Helen Oji

Abuja

The federal authorities has disbursed N249.6 billion to the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) inside the previous three years beneath President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, the  Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare and Alternate Chairman of the Ministerial Oversight Committee (MOC) of the BHCPF, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako,  has stated.

He stated it represents 77.1 % of the N323.6 billion disbursed from the fund since its inception in 2019, as a part of efforts to strengthen main healthcare supply and increase monetary safety for susceptible Nigerians.

Dr Salako said this Wednesday throughout a Ministerial Press Briefing in Abuja on three years of implementation and reforms beneath the fund, themed: “Three Years of BHCPF and Accelerated Domestic Health Financing in Nigeria.”

Dr. Salako, who spoke on behalf of the Ministerial Oversight Committee, said that the briefing offers a complete account of public sources dedicated to the fund, achievements recorded, implementation challenges and priorities for the following section of reform.

He recalled that the BHCPF was established beneath the National Health Act, 2014, to enhance entry to important healthcare, significantly for poor and susceptible Nigerians.

He famous that the fund had turn into a central instrument for implementing the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative launched by President Tinubu in December 2023, alongside the Health Sector Renewal Compact and the adoption of the Sector-Wide Approach to align well being sector planning, financing and accountability.

The minister stated the up to date BHCPF Guidelines 2.0 launched stronger performance-linked disbursement, direct facility financing, improved accountability mechanisms, expanded facility protection and the usage of distinctive beneficiary identifiers to enhance transparency and be certain that public sources ship measurable well being outcomes.

He said that whole releases to the fund stood at N422.3 billion as of September 2026, with N323.6 billion disbursed.

Following the MOC’s approval of an extra N40.76 billion at its sixteenth assembly on 14 October 2026, cumulative disbursements are anticipated to rise to N364.3 billion, of which N290.2 billion would have been disbursed beneath the Tinubu administration.