The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says it has developed a dedicated NHIS USSD-based service for its members. The service can be accessed by dialing short code, *842*10#, from MTN or...
The National Communications and Operations Director of the Health Insurance Service Providers Association of Ghana, (HISPAG), Joseph Christian Amoah has warned that some Health facilities that accept...
The Thumbay Group of Dubai led by the founder Dr. Thumbay Moideen, led a delegation to call on the First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with the...
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) has served notice it would petition Parliament over the National Health Insurance Authority’s plans to increase the levy on the salaries of...
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) is threatening to protest the proposed one per cent levy on the salaries of formal sector workers to fund the country’s national health insurance...
The Ghana Trades Union Congress has warned the current system of financing the National Health Insurance Scheme could lead to its collapse. Deputy General-Secretary of the TUC, Joshua Ansah, says the...
Holders of the National Health Insurance Scheme card living in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region have expressed worry over the lack of supply of drugs under the scheme. The subscribers,...
Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, former Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has called for research into the health implications of heavy metals used by illegal miners on the various...
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has made a proposal to government to levy tobacco and alcohol to fund the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). According to the Authority, the...
A former Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has described the notion by Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Mafo that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government introduced the National...
The immediate past Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia, has said his administration will not accept responsibility for the current woes of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). According to...
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has admitted he is not in position to assure NHIS service providers when arrears owed them would be paid by government. He however maintained that nine...
Registration for service personnel for the 2017/2018 national service year has been postponed from Monday 17th July 2017 to Monday, July 24th July, 2017. A statement from the secretariat on Thursday...
The Member of Parliament for Wa West, Joseph Yieleh Chireh has suggested that the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu was unprepared when he appeared before Parliament on Thursday to respond to...
The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has told Parliament, he is unsure when arrears of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) would be settled. According to him, the scheme owes health...
Government is to hold a national stakeholders forum to find sustained solutions to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Minister of Health, Mr. Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, has announced. “It’s...
Parliament has approved the formula for the disbursement of the National Health Insurance Fund for 2017. A total of 2.2 million Ghana Cedis has been allocated to the NHIS which has struggled in...
Vice- President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has inaugurated a 17-member Board for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) with a call on the members to use their expertise and experience to rescue and...
Management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital has refuted claims that patience are made to pay before healthcare is delivered. A group calling itself Coalition for Change in Government Institutions on...
Participants at the 2017 Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) programme have organised a Hepatitis B and C screening exercise in Nandom. The programme which also enrolled about 100 people onto the...
