NHIS Organises health walk

             

New Regional NHIS office

Dep Min, Mr Daniel Syme (Right) Reg NHIS Boss, Mr Roger Ayine ( Left)

          

The Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Daniel Syme and the Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive, Edward Ayagle yesterday joined in a health walk organised by the Regional Office of the National Health Insurance Scheme as part of activities marking its decade of existence. They were joined by a local based keep fit club among other personalities including some departmental heads. The health walk would be followed by series of programmes of which a float would be organised by the regional office on September 28, 2013. It was engineered at the national level to signify the existence and sustainability of the scheme amidst its numerous financial and managerial challenges.  At a brief gathering to climax the health walk, Mr Syme showed gratitude to the government for making effort to sustain the scheme. According to him many African countries has drawn lesson from the scheme and have come to understudy our progress to boost and strengthened their existing ones. This, he observed signifies the gains chalked since its implementation. Mr Syme commended staff of the scheme for being part of the success story and charge them to dispel all public misconceptions that seeks to challenge the image and credibility of the scheme. The Regional Scheme Manager, Mr Roger Ayine, in an interview with Radio Ghana, said the scheme over the last 10 years has grown from strength to strength and was putting in place workable measures to surmount some of its numerous challenges. According to him, management has drawn up a number of programmes, including a biometric registration scheme to enable the scheme issue cards instantly so as to tackle its distribution process. Accordingly, a capitation programme would be put in place whilst measures are being considered to introduce claim policies as a measure of ensuring that people’s claims are submitted to the authority on time to address the problem in the submission of claims. The scheme, he lauded, has so far attained a utilization membership of 52.28 percent in the region, describing the said achievement as remarkable. Mr Ayine, thanked its collaborators for the successes chalked and assured the people of a more vibrant and effective service delivery in the years ahead.

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