The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has established a permanent satellite office at Bosuso in the Fanteakwa District to provide services to the surrounding villages and communities.
This, according to the District Manager of the Scheme, Mr Daniel Alorgbey, would ensure that clients from the neighboring villages and communities would no longer have to journey all the way to Begoro or Koforidua to renew or register onto the scheme.
At a ceremony to inaugurate the facility, Mr Alorgbey said the daily politicisation of the health insurance scheme was becoming dangerous to the point that some people were refusing to renew their membership or register at all.
He disclosed that utilisation, which was the rate at which clients visited health facilities with their cards, indicated a yearly growth and recorded 102,589 in 2014 and 114,804 in 2015.
Similarly, he said new membership increased from 40,101 in 2014 to 42,630 in 2015 representing 35 per cent of the district population and projected it to increase to 53,827 representing 44 per cent by the close of 2016.
Mr Alorgbey said: “The increase in utilisation of healthcare services means more people are accessing healthcare and more frequently than before and, therefore, it’s never true that the scheme is dying or had collapsed”.
Alhaji Seidu Abudu, the Regional Director of the NHIA, commended the management of the Fanteakwa Office for this bold initiative to take the service closer to the door-steps of clients and assured healthcare facilities of prompt payment.
He said the Authority was working hard to clear all arrears it owed the service providers and that price lists had been reviewed with most drugs seeing a 25 percent appreciation for the benefit of service providers.
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