Table 3 Kind of illness and access to medicine (N = 296)
From: Is the national health insurance scheme a pathway to sustained access to medicines in Nigeria?
Kind of illness suffered | Freq. (%) |
|---|---|
Acute illness (illness of short duration (days weeks) | 265 (89.5) |
Chronic illness (illness of long duration greater than 4 weeks) | 31 (10.5) |
Responses on the number of those that seek for care on the illness above | Â |
Yes | 281 (94.9) |
No | 15 (5.1) |
Did the scheme increase access to medicine? | |
Yes | 232 (78.4) |
No | 55 (18.6) |
Don’t know | 9 (3.0) |