President John Mahama has taken a jab at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for claiming that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has collapsed under his government.
According to him the NPP is registering its members onto the scheme though they claim it has collapsed.
“Recently the NPP said the NHIS has collapsed but if you claim NHIS has collapsed why is the NPP registering its supporters onto the scheme? If it has collapsed then what is the benefit of the card? Why are you paying for the NHIS cards for our people? It is has collapsed then stop registering your people.
What is happening is that the NHIS has expanded tremendously,” Mahama said while addressing a mini-rally at Kade in the Eastern Region on Tuesday as part of his campaign tour of the region.
The flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo and his communication team have accused the NDC of deliberately collapsing the once vibrant social intervention programme which flourished under the NPP and had promised to revive the scheme if given the nod on December 7.
But President Mahama said the NHIS has rather boomed under his government.
He argued that the NHIS which started in 2005 covered only 9 million subscribers who accessed the card at the hospital by end of 2008.
“…in 2015 those who used the cards at the hospital were 29 million. When the NHIS was implemented, we were told that the amount being invested could sustain the scheme for 10 years. So from 2005 to 2015 we had to get money to inject into the system so as at 2015 the scheme has expanded that we now have 29 million visitations in 2015 alone.
In 2008 the amount paid facilities who dispensed healthcare to NHIS subscribers was GHc 183 million, in 2015 the amount was paid was over GHc 1 billion. We need more money to invest into the scheme that is why in the NDC manifesto we stated that some of the oil revenue should be injected into the NHIS so that the NHIS would always be in the position to take care of subscribers,” he added.
Agenda 50/50
The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) had launched an audacious target of getting 50 percent of the votes in the Eastern Region for President Mahama in the upcoming elections.
President Mahama is expected to take opportunity of his campaign to commission some government projects and also explain to the people of the region why he should be given a second term in office.
Source: citifmonline.com
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Mr. Mahama doesn't make sense at all.
They claim NHIS has collapsed but on the quiet, MPs from the same "Pessimistic" party are registering people on to the scheme to get their votes. When they got stranded at Dambai, they claim the Volta regional minister was the one who instigated it. When they realized the woman was fighting back, quietly they have issued a statement distancing the minister from that hiccup. Now, can these people be trusted. What they fail to see is that, there are the silent majority who are reading between the lines to see the lies and hatred they have for the sitting President.
But Fati, You can equally use the voter ID for the same bank transactions now. Please come again.
Ask them Mr President. They think we are blind and ***barred word***? Things fall apart in the NPP and their campaign can't hold hence the untrue stories.
What a DUMB PRESIDENT we have!! I prefer Donald Trump to Mahama. If we continue like this, One day we will wake up and GH has turned into a Desert. Let's do the maths: How many private health insurance companies are in GH..? How many clients do they serve and manage..? Subtract it from the Total Population in GH..? The remaining is based on NHIS? After that...How many of those on NHIS last used their Card..? Now, look at repeated cases..? Then you will realize out of the approximately 26 million Ghanaians, ONLY 2-3 million are based on NHIS and have benefited from their EXPIRED DRUGS! There's a reason why the NPP says the NHIS has collapsed..!! Dumb President! #NPP2017 #NanaB3BA #Ab3NB3BOM [email protected]
@ KB, I DOUBT IF YOU OR ANYONE CLOSE TO YOU HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE SCHEME YET. THE 29 MILLION ACCESS REPRESENTS THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE SCHEME HAS BEEN VISITED. AND IT COULD AS WELL MEAN THAT MOST PROBABLY SOME BENEFICIARIES HAS VISITED MORE THAN ONCE. YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY THINK FAR,,,, THAT THE 25 MILLION GHANAIANS WILL VISIT CLINICS AND HOSPITALS ALL YEAR ROUND.
It is because there is no national ID card system. Th NHIS card has more or less substituted for the National ID which you refused to continue after President Kufour pumped so much money into it. Go to the hospitals around this country and verify whether the NHIS card has any credibilty so far as the health of the people are concerned. People use it to collect money from the banks andto fill certain forms.
@ FATI,,,,, THEN PREPARE FOR A SHOWDOWN.... ABU RAMADAN AND EVANS NIMAKO WILL GO TO COURT TO CHALLENGE ANY SUCH TRANSACTIONS. YOUR LIKES ARE WHAT DON CARLOS CALLS BAD WEEDS. GOD WILL WEED YOU OUT OF THE GARDEN AND SEPARATE YOU FROM THE GRAINS. BECAUSE YOUR LIKES ARE DESPICABLE IN A UTOPIA.
I thought the population of Ghana was ~25 million. How come we have 29 million? May be I did not understand the statement well.
The benefit of the card is that we use it at the banks to open and withdraw cash when u dont have our voters ID so MR president that is the only useful thing about the NHIS card