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More subscribe to NHIS
Kpando, March 20, GNA-A total of 20,200 people in the Kpando
District have been registered under the National Health
Insurance Scheme (NHIS) representing 27 per cent of the
total population of 73,778 subscribers in the District.
Mr. Benjamin Ofori Atsu, District Scheme Manager told the
GNA in an interview that the increase in subscription was
due to a mass registration and sensitization exercise
organized by management in 205 communities across the
district from September to December last year as well as
registration and photo-taking.
He gave the breakdown of registered members as 2,618
representing the formal sector with 283 pensioners 3,315
being the informal sector, 7922 below 18 category with 386
indigents and aged totaling 3,905.
Mr Atsu said the fifteen accredited health facilities in the
district started providing healthcare to clients from
January 1, 2006 with a total attendance by the end of
October as 11,793 and a monthly average of 1,179 while the
bills from the various health facilities for the period
amounted to a little over 394.9 million cedis with a monthly
average of 93.5 million cedis.
He said the Scheme had made arrangements with other schemes
in the region to extend the scope of benefits to members
outside the district to enable them access health care while
subscribers who go beyond the region were given introductory
letters to be able to access healthcare services without any
payment.
Mr Atsu said an amount of 306.7 million cedis was collected
as premium from he informal sector in 2006 as against 56.4
million cedis in 2005 while government gave out 1.2 billion
cedis as subsidy for the exempt category, adding that 86.1
million cedis was generated informally from ID card
processing fees, registration and renewal as well as
facility attendance card.
He said the Scheme intended to adopt the use of subscriber's
booklet starting from next year instead of printing ID cards
and appealed for vehicles and motor bikes to facilitate the
work of staff whose duties invariably takes them out of the
office to enable them reach hard to reach communities to
increase subscription to 75 per cent by the end of this
year.
Madam Lavoe Beauty, Claims Manager said members were
periodically educated on disease prevention to minimize
hospital attendance, which hampers economic activities of
the people.
GNA
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