NHIS SAGA!
Usman Yusuf, the embattled NHIS boss, is a Professor of Haematology-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation. He has extensive experience practicing medicine across three continents – Africa, Europe and North America. He graduated from ABU Zaria with MBBS in 1982. He became a Consultant Paediatrician and Fellow of the West African College of Physicians in 1989. He won a scholarship in 1988 for a postgraduate diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the University of Liverpool, UK. He worked at Christies Hospital and Holt Radium Institute in Manchester as an Oncologist 1990 – 1994.
Prof. Yusuf Usman was appointment as The Executive Secretary of the National Health insurance scheme (NHIS) on July 29, 2016.
However following allegations of fraud and misconduct , Yusuf was suspended in June 2017 by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole following his indictment by an administrative panel set-up by the Minister to probe allegations of gross misconduct and financial recklessness level against him.
According to information going round,The real reason President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the reinstatement of the Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf is because the Presidency believed that the allegations which formed the basis of his suspension by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, remained largely unsubstantiated.
While some have urged the health minister to resign in protest of Yusuf’s reinstatement, others have described the development as a tacit condoning of alleged corruption by the presidency.
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