GMA expresses concern about collapse of NHIS due to non-payment of claims

The National Executive Council, NEC, of the Ghana Medical Association, GMA, has expressed concern about the state of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). 

Speaking at a news conference in Bolgatanga, after the end of the third NEC meeting of the GMA for the year 2016, the President of the Association, Dr Ebenezer Ewusi–Ennim stated that, it is a fact that many health facilities are resorting to cash and carry because of the prolonged indebtedness of the NHIS to them. 

According to him, some facilities have not been paid their claims in the last quarter of 2015.

He called on the NHIA to as a matter of urgency take bold steps to pay the money it owes service providers to save the health system. 

The Chairman of the Upper East Chapter of the Association, Dr Thomas Mensah Afful, who is also the Bolgatanga Municipal Health Director, kicked against the lodging of money deducted for the scheme into the consolidated fund and proposed that instead, it should be paid directly into the NHIA.


GNA