Health

Nandom, Ghana – The Dagara tribe in the Upper West Region of Ghana have been encouraged to maintain a new directive by traditional leaders to perform all funerals within a maximum of two days. According to the Coordinator of the Dagara Culture and Heritage Preservation Project, J. P. Ziem in …

Tamale, Ghana – The Business Development Minister, Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal continues to support institutions and entrepreneurs to overcome their myriad challenges. The latest to benefit from his generosity is the Tamale Nursing and Midwifery Training College where the Minister personally donated a 50KV standby generation plant. This is to …

Tamale, Ghana – A Principal Midwifery Officer in-charge of the Labour Ward at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), Hajia Zainab Yahaya, has implored corporate and charity organisations to emulate MTN Ghana’s corporate social responsibility effort. According to her, for about 10 successive years, the telecommunication company had continued to present …

Tamale, Ghana – Executive Director of Grassroots Sisterhood Foundation (GSF), Fati Alhassan, has asked community leaders in the Northern Region to come together and make good use of water tanks provided by their district assemblies for water storage during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. According to her, although government …

Takoradi, Ghana – Top executives of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) continue to support the district and regional management teams’ determination to increase membership of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). They have intensified mass membership campaigns across the country as the Deputy Chief Executive in charge of Administration …

Accra, Ghana – The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has cautioned the general public against some imposters collecting people’s Ghana cards under the guise of helping them to link it to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card. Executive Management in a Disclaimer stated that the Authority has not in …

Kumasi, Ghana – Apart from providing leadership direction to Executive Management, Board members of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) have always been in the frontline in all the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) outreach programmes. They are constantly on the move keeping NHIS teams connected. During the NHIS Week …

Accra, Ghana – Dangbe West District Office of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on Wednesday 18th November, 2020 mounted a two day mass membership mobilization exercise at the Old Ningo lorry station. The exercise was in tandem with the official launch of Phase three of the Ghana Luxembourg Social …

Accra, Ghana – The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is putting up innovative strategies to brighten the future for recognized Private Health Insurance Scheme Operators in Ghana. According to the Authority’s Board Chair, Professor Yaw Adu-Gyamfi, the pivotal role of private health insurers on the path to Universal Health Coverage …

Accra, Ghana – The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has waived the mandatory one month waiting period for first-term registrants and defaulters of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) starting from 9th to 15th November 2020. By this amnesty, they can immediately within the one week period use their cards …