Yilo Krobo NHIS hits 112 per cent coverage

For the first quarter of 2015, the Yilo Krobo National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in the Eastern Region has achieved 112 per cent.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Somanya, Mr Tulasi Kwaku Kafui, the Scheme Manager, said the scheme achieved 10,175 of its expected quarterly enrolment of 9,056.

Mr Kafui said in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES), children in the basic schools are being enrolled to help eliminate potential fraud and ensure better and efficient service delivery to the public.

“The biometric system will enable the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to biometrically authenticate subscribers at health provider sites to discourage multiple submissions”, he said.

Mr Kafui said the biometric system would also enable the authority to match claims by health service providers against the actual attendance by individuals at the health centres for accurate reimbursement.

He said the biometric membership registration would clean up the scheme’s database of duplicate registrations.

“Our mobile kits are not functioning in most of the communities for lack of inter-connectivity”, and clients are forced to travel several kilometres to the municipal capital (Somanya).

He said the assembly would release a piece of land for the construction of permanent offices to ensure a congenial atmosphere for work.

Mr Kafui said “the concept of the biometric registration is a very good one” adding that, the biometric data would help forestall the recurrence of management challenges that previously bedeviled the scheme.