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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 – Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has implored the media to set the agenda and increase the frequency of public discourse on the Ghana card and National Health Insurance Card merger. He said the media must intensify public education on the benefits of the integrated system in …

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 …

Accra, Ghana – Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says merging the Ghana Card and the National Health Insurance Card is to ensure that people receive comprehensive healthcare ranging from promotion and prevention to treatment in line with the Primary Health Care (PHC) values. Dr. Lydia Dsane-Selby …

Tamale, Ghana – A leading member of Friends of Dr. Richard Kuuire Fun Club in Tamale, Dunstan Pagzu, has called on all electorate in the Nandom Constituency to rally their support behind the NDC parliamentary candidate and vote for him at the December 7 election. According to him, Dr. Kuuire …

Nandom, Ghana – The NDC parliamentary candidate for the Nandom Constituency, Dr. Richard Kuuire has started the drilling of two boreholes at Guo Hayoree and Monyupelle communities today. A brief whatsApp message sent to SavannahNewsOnline.Com by the NDC candidate a while ago, said “the good people of Guo Hayoree and …

Tamale, Ghana – The Concerned Youth Groups of Northern Ghana, an amalgamation of eight different youth groups in Northern Ghana, is accusing management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) of deliberately trying to undo the gains chalked in recent years under the previous administration of Dr. David Zaawumya Kolbilla. CYGNG …

Accra, Ghana – As the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentray elections draw closer, an influential member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mrs. Rosamond Dsane-Selby has donated a consignment of T-Shirts and aprons to the party’s La Dadekotopon Parliamentary candidate. Being the widow of one of the founding members of the …

Accra, Ghana – As plans are afoot to celebrate the National Health Insurance Scheme’s (NHIS) Week under the theme, “NHIS: Leaving no one behind,” the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) targets four (4) million more active membership in the month of November 2020. In this regard, the Scheme’s Regional and …

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 …