{"id":76205,"date":"2025-08-18T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76205\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:15:08","slug":"tinubu-subsidises-dialysis-treatment-in-public-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76205\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu subsidises dialysis treatment in public hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mtnmegabillion.com\/?utm_source=premiumtimes&amp;utm_medium=native&amp;utm_campaign=MTN_Mega_Billion_Promo_Campaign&amp;utm_content=Recharge_and_Win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MTN-728x90-1.jpg\" alt=\"MTN ADVERT\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/officialABAT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">President Bola Tinubu<\/a> has approved a reduction in the price of each kidney dialysis session for patients, from N50,000 to N12,000, a spokesperson has said.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Bwala, a spokesperson to the president, made this <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bwaladaniel\/status\/1957487431671816220?s=46&amp;t=Nsu4dND89v5svXvE0hrsNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">known<\/a> on Monday via his X handle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstbanknigeria.com\/home\/impact\/sponsorships\/sponsorships\/agriculture-and-food\/agric-expo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-810513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FirstBank-Agric25-Cargo-Social-Media-300Wx250H.jpg\" alt=\"FIRST BANK AD\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The development, which will first commence in ten public hospitals, will provide relief to thousands of Nigerians battling kidney-related diseases, many of whom cannot pay for the dialysis.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/promoted\/814965-stakeholders-commend-tinubu-over-appointment-of-pedro-as-nta-dg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stakeholders commend Tinubu over appointment of Pedro as NTA DG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore federal medical centres and teaching hospitals will be added before the end of the year to widen access nationwide. \u201d It would be recalled that last year, President Tinubu also approved free cesarean sections (C-sections) for pregnant women in federal hospitals, a bold step aimed at boosting maternal healthcare and reducing preventable maternal deaths,\u201d Mr Bwala wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Details later\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Bola Tinubu has approved a reduction in the price of each kidney dialysis session for patients, from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,39018,50,8720,39019,28337,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-76205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-kidney-subsidy","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nigeria","13":"tag-premium-times","14":"tag-tinubu","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}