"We have Revived the NHIS" - Nana Addo announce after GH¢1.2 billion legacy debt clearance
The settlement of GH¢1.2Million caccording to the president has been paid to make sure that citizens receive the best health care in the country
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The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has updated Ghanaians that National Health Insurance Scheme has been brought back to life following the settlement of GH¢1.2 billlion legacy debt.
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor under the New Patriotic Party’s governanment implemented the scheme yet along the line, it suffered setbacks during the reign of the late, John Evans Atta Mills and continued struggling under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration. It was echoed with bereavement from Ghanaians assessing its financial significance toward patients.
Speaking at the commissioning of the Ga-East hospital, the second to be contracted by President Akufo-Addo under the “Ghana Hospital Project”, following the 18th August, 2019, opening of the Upper West Regional Hospital, in Wa, he revealed that the NHIS ‘which was left in ruins’ by the NDC has been revived by another led-NPP government.
The National Health Insurance Scheme has also been brought back to life through the clearing of the GH¢1.2 billion legacy debt of the past government,” he said.
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“My government continues to demonstrate its commitment and determination to ensuring that the habits and sins of past managers of our public finances are no longer visited on this or future generations.”
As part of the promise to procure one ambulance each for the 275 constituencies in Ghana, the President stated that Government has taken stock of the first batch of 9) ambulances, and, by the end of December, the rest will be in.
“We are delivering essential medical health products through the use of drones, and, just within the past five months of its operations, I am told over one-thousand (1,000) flights have been made from the first site in Omenako, with over five thousand (5,000) products delivered,” President Akufo-Addo said.
He continued, “We are also leveraging the use of technology, with some of our healthcare facilities, before the end of the year, going paperless. We have deployed an electronic platform for logistics management information systems for the distribution of drug and non-drug commodities in the country.”
