Imam Appeals to Christian Health Association to Rescind Decision not to Accept NHIS Cards
 

The Eastern Regional Chief Imam, Alhaji Yusif Amdani, has appealed to members of the Christian Health Association of Ghana,  to rescind their decision not to accept National Health Insurance Schemes (NHIS) cards on humanitarian grounds so that the poor on the NHIS could receive health care.
       
He also appealed to the government and management of the NHIS to make frantic efforts to settle all outstanding claims due the members of CHAG.

Alhaji Amdani made the appeal at prayers to mark Eid-ul-Fitr at Koforidua to make the end of Ramadan.
     
CHAG members have refused to treat patients on the NHIS if they are not ready to pay for the services because of the failure of the NHIS secretariat to honour the many claims of health institutions under the CHAG.
   
He appealed to the government to extend scholarships to the youth of the Zongo communities to enable them to improve upon their education to make better contribution to the country’s democracy.

    
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Antwi-Boasiako Sekyere, said the government in collaboration with the Brazilian government, under the urban renewable project, had initiate moves to improve social amenities in Zongos  across the country.
    
He said the government was also liaising with the Council of Muslim Chiefs to come up with skills training programmes for the youth in the Zongos.

From Effiakuma in the Western Region, Captain Anthony Cudjoe (Rtd), Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Chief Executive, on Monday called on Muslims to contribute to sustain the peace the Western Region and the country as a whole is enjoying.
    
He urged Muslims to continue to live in unity with people of other faiths in order to maintain the relative peace.
    
Capt Cudjoe was speaking at this year’s celebration of Eid-Ul-Fitr by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission at Effiakuma near Takoradi.
     
He said Ghanaians must not harbor ill feeling or enmity towards each other as the country is going through some challenges, adding they should rather strive to live in unity as one people with common destiny.
    
Capt Cudjoe said Muslims must desist from acts forbidden by their religion such as cheating, stealing, murder, backbiting, adultery and fornication.
   
He said: “I wish to advise followers of Islam to be faithfully guided by the teachings of Islam and avoid all such distasteful acts during the Ramadan period and after.”
    
Maulvi Naeem Ahmed Mehmood Cheema,  Regional Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, spoke of the mercy and forgiveness of Allah.
   
He said Allah is willing to forgive the sins of those who sincerely repent no matter the nature of their sins.
     
Maulvi Cheema said those who believe in the mercy and goodness of Allah go to him for forgiveness adding, this is a message of hope for those who had committed sin and had lost hope and direction.
    
He said it is also a message of freedom for those who are in the grip of Satan and asked Muslims not to go back to their bad ways after Eid-Ul-Fitr but to sincerely repent of their sins.

SOURCE: GNA