Alimosho Local Government Chairman, Honourable Isreal Olushola Adekunle and his Royal Highness Oba Babatunde Ogunronbi, of Shasa Kingdom during EKO Club Atlanta free health mission recently in Lagos.
By Nkiruka Nnorom
Funds and Electronic Transfer Solutions Limited, FETS, a leading Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, licensed mobile money operator, and Communic8Health, a health market consumer research organisation, in collaboration with PharmAccess Mobile Health Research Lab, have successfully completed a study on digital payment for healthcare using the FETS mobile money wallet platform, fetswallet.
The main objective was to study how mobile phones and mobile payment technologies can be used to improve access to affordable and quality healthcare services to individuals and communities otherwise constrained.
The study was to introduce low income households to mobile payment as an alternative to cash payments for health services; assess its usability and acceptability; observe any change in healthcare utilisation in the participating health facilities and the target participants’ health-seeking behaviour and eventually migrate households to a saving test to cater for their health expenses.
It was carried out on four health facilities and 50 low income households in Makoko, Lagos, targeting women with children below the age of five.
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