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NHIS records high patronage in Wa Municipality
Wa, Jan. 3, GNA - The Wa Municipal Mutual Health Insurance
Scheme is recording a high number of subscribers as most
people are now beginning to understand that it is cheaper to
join the scheme than to stick to the "cash and carry
system."
People are forming long queues at the offices of the scheme
and registration centers to join the scheme.
Out of a total of 57,133 people who have subscribed to the
scheme throughout the municipality, 9,610 people from the
informal sector of the population joined the scheme in
December last year alone.
Mr John Bosco Zury, the Scheme Manager, told the GNA in an
interview that if this trend continued the scheme would
cover more than 50 per cent of people in the municipality by
the middle of this year.
He attributed this positive development to stepped up
education campaigns being undertaken by senior and junior
secondary school leavers who have been recruited by the
scheme for that purpose and testimonies given by people who
had already benefited from the scheme.
Mr Zury mentioned the high cost of malaria treatment by
private health facilities that offer services to clients
under the scheme, inadequate funds for claims administration
and late submission of bills as some of the challenges
confronting the scheme.
The Wa Municipal Scheme had so far settled 1.966 billion
cedis as medical bills of 31,715 clients, collected premiums
amounting to 1.098 billion cedis, while 1.687 billon cedis
came from the National Health Insurance secretariat.
He called on the government to provide them with logistics
such as computers and bicycles to facilitate their work and
institute training programmes for the staff of the Claims
Unit.
GNA
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