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The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) in June 2022, added treatment of the four common childhood cancers to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Benefit Package.
 
These are Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, Burkitt Lymphoma, Retinoblastoma, and Wilms Tumor.
 
Since its implementation, the childhood cancers policy has been beneficial to many children who suffered from the disease condition, despite some few challenges.
 
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) had conducted initial actuarial modelling of the Scheme’s capacity to absorb the costs of coverage for these childhood cancers with the hope of removing this financial barrier.