Health

In furtherance to the government’s push for attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030, the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has added a Specialist Anti-Breast Cancer Drug, (Herceptin) to the National Health Insurance Scheme’s (NHIS) Medicines list, elevating Ghana as the first country in the Sub-Saharan African Region, to …

Accra, Ghana – In the latest rankings by the ratio of Mobile Renewals to total active membership for September 2020, Bongo District in the Upper East Region dominated with 7.3% followed by Atebubu District in the Bono East Region and Ejisu-Juaben District in the Ashanti with a draw of 7.1%. …

Accra, Ghana – The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has made the most recent Claims payment to 4,292 credentialed healthcare providers and this brings the total to GHs 1,071,326,884.61, since January 2020. Of the total amount paid including withholding tax, Public healthcare providers have received GHs 565,172,987.24 representing 52.8 percent …

Accra, Ghana – President of the Private Health Facilities Association Ghana, Mr. Donkor Boakye Samuel has lauded the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA’s) latest rapid Claims Payments. Speaking in an interview on the sidelines after a meeting with Executive Management at the NHIA Head Office in Accra, he remarked, “NHIA …

Sagnarigu, Ghana – A senior project manager of the Electronic Waste Management in Ghana (E-MAGIN) project, Professor Daniel Agyapong, has urged scrap and electronic waste collectors to formalize their businesses for optimum gain. According to him, scrap and e-waste collectors would be able to access certain opportunities such as grants …

Tamale, Ghana – The Henry Djaba Memorial Foundation has asked the government of Ghana to make it mandatory and ensure that provision is made for sign language interpreter services in all its programmes and activities for the benefit of deaf people. The  charity organisation encouraged duty bearers, government agencies, civil …

Accra, Ghana – The governing Board and management of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) on September 17, 2020 met industry players in the space of Ghana’s Private Health Insurance Schemes to improve their services. The stakeholder engagement held in Accra was under the theme “Challenges facing the private health …

Accra, Ghana – Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says the policy intervention to allow Ghanaians to use Ghana card to access healthcare under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is the surest means of attaining Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. In the estimation of Dr. …

In the order of regional rankings for August 2020, the newly created Oti Region recorded the highest number of Mobile Renewal enrolment with 14%, followed by the Western North Region with 8% and the Upper West Region with 6%. Five out of the 16 administrative regions recorded increases in Mobile …

Tamale, Ghana – The corporate social responsibility investment arm of telecom giant, MTN Ghana, today presented 28,500 personal protective equipment to 10 hospitals across Northern Ghana in support of their efforts to fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic. The beneficiary hospitals are Tamale Teaching Hospital, Saboba Hospital, Damongo Catholic Hospital, Salaga …