NHIS appraisal Forum held at Wa

Wa, Jan. 25, GNA - A forum aimed to appraise the performance of key actors in the National Health Insurance Scheme and to come out with interventions to foster citizen/government engagement in the running of the schemes at national and district levels was held at Wa on Wednesday. The Wa Municipal Mutual Health Insurance Advocacy Committee organized the forum with sponsorship from the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), a non-governmental organization.

CEDEP formed advocacy committees at the regional and district levels throughout the country to monitor the implementation of the schemes to ensure that all vulnerable groups benefit from the exemptions while at the same time participating in taking decisions affecting the schemes.

Mr Bright Asare Boadi, Programme Manager of CEDEP, said they would empower the advocacy committees to monitor and make sure that all clients of the schemes were treated fairly irrespective of age, sex, religion or ethnic background.

He said apart from NHIS cardholders not getting timely attention at the hospitals and health facilities they were being given inferior drugs.

Mr Nasir Ahmed Aidoo, Management Information Systems Officer of the Wa Municipal Mutual Health Scheme, said 55,310 people representing 43.3 per cent of the population of the Municipality joined the scheme as at December 31, last year.