Find new funding sources for NHIS-Mahama charges government

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Former President John Mahama says the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIA) needs new sources of funding.

“We are also proposing sources of funding for the  Health Insurance. The health insurance as it was designed was to cover a period of ten years.

“We have gone far past that number of years and the subscriber base has increased phenomenally and the funding sources have become insufficient to sustain the health insurance, and so looking at new sources of funding for health insurance will be important,” the NDC flagbearer told members and executives of the Ghana Medical Association in a meeting Monday.

He said the NDC will activate the various health facilities and projects that have been left unused upon the assumption of the NPP government.

“We talked about operationalizing projects that have been completed but are standing idle like the University of Ghana Medical Centre, the Bank Hospital, the Wa Hospital and several other projects that have been commissioned but are still not operationalised,

On his part, the President of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Frank Ankobea said the meeting was helpful.

“We probably would have to meet some groups of the NDC and then still go down to some other health policies that they have.”

 

Source: Starrfm.com.gh

 

 


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Kennedy Mornah is an Award Winning Ghanaian Journalist with over two decades of experience in the Ghanaian Media landscape spanning the electronic, print and digital media. He is a Media Consultant, a Corporate MC, Radio and TV Host, Founder and Publisher of the Maritime and Transport Digest Newspaper, Businessman, a Go getter and an optimist. He has worked for renowned media organizations including Diamond Fm in Tamale, Luv Fm in Kumasi, Oman Fm in Accra and Starr Fm in Accra In 2017 he received the Reporter of the Year Award at the Ghana Shippers Awards in Accra, Ghana.

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