Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says there should a compulsory health insurance scheme for citizens to enable all to access quality and affordable health care services.

He was speaking in Abuja on wednesday at the Civic Innovation Lab: Launchpad For Social Innovators event

Osinbajo  noted that the present National Health Insurance Scheme although useful, was unable to pull resources together to cater for the health needs of others not yet enrolled.

He said that government was investing in education and health care and had supported states with N1.91 trillion.

He, however, added that while such sector funding lay in the states only a functional  and all-embracing national health insurance scheme could provide adequate health care for citizens.