NHIA workers donate blood to KATH

Workers of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) in the Ashanti Region, have organized a voluntary blood donation in support of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital’s (KATH).

More than 100 of the employees were on hand to give in excess of 80 pints of blood to shore up the stock at the referral facility’s blood transmission medicine unit.

Mr. Bawa Nurudeen, acting Regional Manager of the Authority, said it was their contribution towards saving lives.

He used the occasion to assure service providers that they would be paid every pesewa owed them by the NHIA.

They should therefore continue to render services to health insurance card holders despite the reimbursement delays.

Mr. Nurudeen also counseled insurance card holders to make sure that they renewed their cards after their expiry.

That, he noted, was important to enable them to access quality healthcare, adding that, the nation needed a healthy population to increase economic productivity.

He called for the people to ignore claims and rumors that the national health insurance scheme was collapsing, saying, this was not true.