Mamponteng (Ash), Jan. 20, GNA - Seventy percent of the expected 124,000 people aged 18 years and above in the Kwabre district have registered for the National Health Insurance Scheme.
Out of the number 7,000 have duly paid their premium that qualifies them to benefit with their dependants who are not of age.
Alhaji Ahmed Akwasi Yeboah, Kwabre District Chief Executive (DCE), who announced this at a People's Forum at Mamponteng on Monday, said 42 communities had been issued with photo identification cards. He commended the consultants of the project for their work and appealed to all those who had not registered with the scheme to do so in order to benefit from it.
The DCE stressed that the assembly has over the years disbursed a total of 150 million cedis to individuals and other identifiable groups to go into income generating activities under the poverty reduction fund.
"It is heart warming to bring to your notice that the majority of the beneficiaries are women, who we considered being marginalized", he said.
Alhaji Akwasi Yeboah indicated that the Assembly was working on a number of infrastructure development projects under the HIPC Fund, the District Assemblies Common Fund, Social Investment Fund, European Union Micro projects and German Technical Co-operation (GTZ) programmes. The projects include the construction of classrooms with offices, nurses' quarters, clinics, area council halls, toilet facilities, staff quarters and hand-dug wells.
The DCE called on the assembly members to meet their people regularly and work in close collaboration with the unit committee to enhance the proper development of their communities.
Chief Inspector Joseph Emmanuel Mensah, Acting Mamponteng District Police Commander, called on the district assembly to assist the police to have a proper toilet facility for suspects at the station.
Nana Detor, Kwabre District Director of Town and Country Planning asked the assembly to support his outfit with vehicles to enable it to effectively check unauthorised physical developments in the district.
He admitted that people were building without permits, which is a bad practice and stressed that things would be streamlined when they get vehicles to go on inspection.
Mamponteng (Ash), Jan. 20, GNA - Seventy percent of the expected 124,000 people aged 18 years and above in the Kwabre district have registered for the National Health Insurance Scheme.
Out of the number 7,000 have duly paid their premium that qualifies them to benefit with their dependants who are not of age.
Alhaji Ahmed Akwasi Yeboah, Kwabre District Chief Executive (DCE), who announced this at a People's Forum at Mamponteng on Monday, said 42 communities had been issued with photo identification cards. He commended the consultants of the project for their work and appealed to all those who had not registered with the scheme to do so in order to benefit from it.
The DCE stressed that the assembly has over the years disbursed a total of 150 million cedis to individuals and other identifiable groups to go into income generating activities under the poverty reduction fund.
"It is heart warming to bring to your notice that the majority of the beneficiaries are women, who we considered being marginalized", he said.
Alhaji Akwasi Yeboah indicated that the Assembly was working on a number of infrastructure development projects under the HIPC Fund, the District Assemblies Common Fund, Social Investment Fund, European Union Micro projects and German Technical Co-operation (GTZ) programmes. The projects include the construction of classrooms with offices, nurses' quarters, clinics, area council halls, toilet facilities, staff quarters and hand-dug wells.
The DCE called on the assembly members to meet their people regularly and work in close collaboration with the unit committee to enhance the proper development of their communities.
Chief Inspector Joseph Emmanuel Mensah, Acting Mamponteng District Police Commander, called on the district assembly to assist the police to have a proper toilet facility for suspects at the station.
Nana Detor, Kwabre District Director of Town and Country Planning asked the assembly to support his outfit with vehicles to enable it to effectively check unauthorised physical developments in the district.
He admitted that people were building without permits, which is a bad practice and stressed that things would be streamlined when they get vehicles to go on inspection.
