WHAT UHC REALLY MEANS FOR NIGERIA 🇳🇬
On 1 October 1960, Nigeria gained independence.
66 years later, another kind of freedom is worth thinking about:
The freedom to access healthcare without falling into financial hardship.
That is what Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is really about — ensuring that every Nigerian can get the care they need, when they need it, without the cost becoming a burden.
Nigeria has a 2030 UHC target. But achieving it requires more than policies and insurance enrolment.
It requires healthcare that people can access, afford, and actually use when they reach the hospital counter.
At Medibills Solutions, we are building towards that last mile making payment and insurance verification simpler at the point of care.
This Independence Day, let’s imagine a Nigeria where healthcare is a freedom everyone can afford. 🇳🇬
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Meet our Chief Product Officer, Halimah Yahaya Hafiz.
Halimah is a medical doctor and health tech innovator working at the intersection of medicine, artificial intelligence, and digital health.
Her journey into technology began alongside her medical training, driven by a simple question: How can technology solve the problems I see within the healthcare system?
Rather than treating medicine and technology as separate paths, she has built a career at the intersection of both, translating clinical insight into practical, patient centred products.
As Chief Product Officer at MediBills, Halimah is helping build a healthcare payment platform designed to remove financial friction from care. From hospital payments and insurance access to co payments and other healthcare transactions, her work focuses on making the experience simpler for patients and healthcare providers.
Her role spans the full product lifecycle, from identifying real healthcare problems and understanding user journeys to designing digital experiences and building solutions that work in the often complex and high pressure realities of healthcare.
Beyond MediBills, she works with a fast growing medication safety startup, where she combines her clinical expertise with her communication and content skills to translate complex medical information into clear, accessible content that promotes medication safety and health literacy.
Her product design experience also extends across several companies and startups, including The Spark and Tourgrin, alongside contract design work with Andela and OneTimesFive. She has also collaborated with international companies on brand storytelling and product design, helping create digital experiences that connect products with the people they are built for.
Her interest in artificial intelligence has taken her deeper into the innovation ecosystem. She represented AGRIAI at the Nigeria National AI Hackathon, contributing to conversations around AI, digital transformation, and the future of healthcare in Africa.
Ultimately, Halimah is driven by systems level change. She believes technology and AI can help address some of the challenges created by limited resources, fragmented healthcare systems, and financial barriers across Africa.
Her greatest strength is the perspective she brings from both sides of the table. Her medical training gives her an insider’s understanding of healthcare, while her experience in product, digital health, design, and AI gives her the tools to build solutions.
She is building toward a career where medicine, technology, and AI converge, creating scalable solutions that make healthcare more accessible, safer, and more equitable across Africa.
We are excited to have Halimah leading our product vision and helping shape the future of healthcare technology at MediBills.
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No one should have to choose between asking for help and affording it. 💚
This World Suicide Prevention Day, we're reminded that a lighter bill can mean a lighter burden and that's a weight worth lifting.
At Medibills, we're working on the billing side of hospital care because clarity and dignity around cost is part of care too.
If you're struggling, you're not alone.
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NNPC/SEPLAT scholarship, Total energies scholarship, DFS Foundation and Nasarawa state scholarship board.
I’m so so proud of his brilliance, consistency, resilience and selflessness. I pray that Allah blesses the knowledge he has acquired and make it beneficial to him, the ummah
His journey to Ahmadu Bello University(ABU) started from School of Basic Remedial studies(SBRS) where he got 5:00 in both semesters and was admitted into ABU. Through his journey in ABU, he was awarded by various organizations which include Agbami schorlaship,
My brother, Dr Aminu Abdulkarim Alhassan got inducted into the medical profession on 18th August, 2026. He was awarded the best graduating student in chemical pathology and medical microbiology. https://t.co/yKpJCSO96a
No more standing in the billing queue with a sick relative.
Fund your MediBills Wallet with a simple bank transfer, and pay for hospital bills, tests, and services straight from your phone. Instant credit, zero stress.
Your wallet. Your pace. 💚
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KNOW THE TEAM MEMBER
Meet Ibrahim Lawal, our Co-Founder & Chief Financial Analyst at MediBills solutions.
Ibrahim Leads financial modelling, unit economics, pricing strategy, and the financial systems that underpin the company's EHR-integrated hospital payment infrastructure. He Works closely on product direction, particularly on how payment and reporting flows fit into the realities of hospital revenue cycles.
Financial expertise; Deep, self-directed grounding in financial management and financial systems design, built through sustained independent study and applied practice inside a growing healthtech company.He approaches healthcare financing as a systems problem, translating hospital revenue and billing friction into models the business can act on.
Clinical background; Medical doctor( MBBS;Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Direct clinical experience informs his view of how billing delays and payment friction affect patient care at the point of delivery. While in medical school, Ibrahim has Served with the Federation of African Medical Students' Associations (FAMSA), Standing Committee on Health Education. A key volunteer on multiple community health outreach programmes across Nigeria.
His interest is majorly on Financial management and markets.
He can be described as “A doctor who reads balance sheets”, building the financial infrastructure African healthcare has been missing.
💚 Do you have health insurance?
This Insurance Awareness Month, we’re starting an honest conversation about access to healthcare.
Tell us which option best describes you:
🅰️ Yes — I have active health insurance.
🅱️ No — I can’t afford the premiums.
🅲️ No — I don’t know how to get it.
🅳️ No — I don’t trust the system.
👇 Drop A, B, C, or D in the comments, and if you’re comfortable, tell us why.
Every response gives us a better understanding of the real barriers people face—and helps shape the solutions we’re building at Medibills to make healthcare financing more accessible, affordable, and trustworthy.
Your voice matters. Let’s build a healthier future together. 💚
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Nigerian patients wait 3 to 4 hours just to see a doctor. That's roughly 5x longer than Japan, and above the US ER median.
We compared hospital wait times across Nigeria, Africa, and the world. The data is clear: queues are costing patients time they can't get back.
Medibills digitizes hospital billing so you spend less time in line and more time getting care.
No queues. Simplified billing. Pay from your phone.
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Nine out of ten Nigerians face illness with no safety net.
This is not a statistic, that’s the person ahead of you in the queue.
93% of Nigeria's workforce is informal. Traders, tailors, farmers, okada riders. Only 6% of insured Nigerians come from that group.
Health Insurance was built around a salary. If you do not have one, the system has no way to include you. That is not behaviour. That is design.
This gap was built by people. It can be closed by people.
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