Product HPN

Your Health Point Number

Twelve digits. Issued once. Kept for life. One identity across every hospital, pharmacy, lab and ambulance in Nigeria — the BVN of healthcare.

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Health Point Number

PHB-4029-8156-7734

What it is

One identity, every care moment.

An HPN is a unique, permanent identifier issued to every person in Nigeria — patients and clinicians alike. It is different from a hospital file number, which only works at one facility. Your HPN works everywhere PHB-connected providers can see a record.

You receive it once at verified onboarding. It cannot be revoked, reassigned or transferred. Even doctors get one — because a clinician is also a patient.

Universal across Nigeria

Every PHB-connected hospital, pharmacy and lab reads the same record by your HPN — not just the one that issued it.

Clinicians get one too

Doctors, nurses and pharmacists each have an HPN. A clinician is also a patient — one identity covers both roles.

Works without a smartphone

Access your HPN via USSD on any network (*894#), IVR on 0700 PHB CARE, or simply show up at a PHB-connected front desk.

Not the same as your hospital number

A hospital file number is local. Your HPN is national. It travels with you, not with the building.

Free to create

Creating an HPN costs nothing. PHB does not charge patients for identity or record access.

How it’s built

A precise, verifiable structure.

Prefix

PHB

Brand
identifier

Group 1

4029

4 payload
digits

Group 2

8156

4 payload
digits

Group 3 + check

7734

3 payload + 1 check digit

Damm mod-10

12 numeric digits

11 payload digits carry your identity. The 12th is a Damm algorithm check digit that catches any single-digit typo or adjacent transposition.

Issued at onboarding

Identity is verified at onboarding — with a NIN, a professional licence, or in-facility attestation. One HPN is generated per verified person.

Works on every channel

Smartphone, basic phone via USSD *894#, IVR, or simply at a hospital front desk. Your HPN works without internet.

One number, every provider

Different from a hospital file number.

A hospital file number belongs to one hospital. An HPN belongs to you — and every PHB-connected provider reads the same record by it, from Lagos to Maiduguri.

Hospitals

Public and private, primary through tertiary.

Pharmacies

PCN-registered community and hospital pharmacies.

Laboratories

MLSCN-verified diagnostic labs nationwide.

Ambulances

Emergency dispatch with your record pre-loaded.

Yours for life, private by default

Showing your HPN does not open your record.

Giving a provider your HPN allows them to look you up in the network. It does not automatically share your clinical data — they still need your real-time consent to read your record.

Every access — who saw what and when — is logged in an append-only audit trail. You can review it at any time from any channel.

Consent required to view your record

Knowing your HPN does not grant access to your clinical data. Providers must request consent, which you grant or deny.

Every access is logged

An append-only audit trail records every read, write and share — who, when and why.

You can see the log

Review every access from the app, web, USSD or IVR. Export it or raise a query at any time.

Stored in Nigeria

All data stays within Nigerian borders. Egress is border-locked at the network edge.

Create your HPN today.

Free, permanent and yours for life. No smartphone required — dial *894# on any network.

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