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Kintampo North NHIS holds Annual Performance Review

The National Health Insurance Secretariat in the Kintampo North District has held its 2020 end of year annual performance review meeting as part of efforts to help evaluate their performance and also identify the sectors strengths and weaknesses to help promote quality healthcare in the area.

Date Created : 5/26/2021 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Rufina Yuoni/Ghanadistricts.com

The meeting, which was delayed due to the novel Covid-19 pandemic, was under the theme: “Providing access to financial health care service for residents in Kintampo North Municipality in the midst of Covid-19 – the role of the all stakeholders.”

It was disclosed at the meeting that most targets set in the year 2020 were achieved by the secretariat as a greater number of the population were enrolled onto the scheme.

For instance, in 2019, about 37,099 mobile renewals were made as against the targeted figure of 45,325.

The figure, however, increased significantly from a targeted 28,274 to 47,202 representing 69.90% in 2020.

Speaking at the meeting, the Regional Director for NHIS, Mr. George Oppong Danquah admonished patients with NHIS cards not to pay for the healthcare service received since government had already taken cost of all expenses.

He warned health facilities that are NHIS accredited but are still operating under cash and carry to desist from the act or risk having their license being revoked.

On his part, Municipal Chief Executive of the area, Mr. Michael Sarkodie Baffoe advised all not to politicize importance of NHIS, adding that government is working assiduously to automate and also set up NHIS hospitals across the country to help improve the free access to health care initiative.

He thus urged stakeholders to enhance education on the need and benefits of registering onto the NHIS to access free health care.

Meanwhile, an out- lined presentation on power point was done to educate stakeholder and invited guest on how the mobile phone NHIS card renewal.

Health officials also listed challenges such as lack of unavailability of vehicles, poor internet connection among others as the bottlenecks of their work.