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No Money, No Machine: Patients Die Waiting As Subsidised Dialysis Remains A Mirage

Reported by Leadership on 31 May 2026. Read the summary below, then continue to the full story.

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Patience Ivie Ihejirika
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Summary

For kidney patients across Nigeria, the Federal Government’s 2023 promise to subsidise dialysis to N12,000 per session remains a mirage. At teaching hospitals, patients are still charged N40,000 to N50,000 per session. With three sessions required weekly, many simply stop coming. Doctors say they watch patients die in waiting rooms, cash in hand, but not []

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