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National Health Insurance Authority Proposes Special Tax On Sugary, Alcoholic Beverages

The National Health Insurance Authority is proposing a special tax on sugar-sweetened and alcoholic beverages as...

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NHIA Debts: Cash and Carry Will Return Soon

The National Communications and Operations Director of the Health Insurance Service Providers Association of Ghana,...

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Support NHIA With 1% Of Your Earnings – NHIA CEO To Labour

The Chief Executive Officer for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Dr. Samuel Annor has called on Labour...

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NHIS To Cover Prostrate and Child Cancers

Health Minister Dr. Kwaku Agyeman Manu says the government hopes to find resources for the National Health Insurance...

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SONA 2018: NHIS Funding Stirs Debate Between Majority, Minority

Reactions are sharply divided between the Majority and Minority on the president’s State of the Nation address. Key...

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ICU To Storm Parliament Over 1% NHIS Levy Increment

The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union  (ICU) has served notice it would  petition Parliament over the National...

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TUC Tasks NHIA To Come Out With Innovative Strategies To Sustain Scheme

The Ghana Trades Union Congress has warned the current system of financing the National Health Insurance Scheme could...

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Shortage of Drugs Hits NHIS In Lawra

Holders of the National Health Insurance Scheme card living in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region have...

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Prof Akosa Calls For Research Into Health Implications of Galamsey

Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, former Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has called for research into...

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Levy Alcohol To Fund NHIS

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has made a proposal to government to levy tobacco and alcohol to fund...

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Senior Minister To Pharmacists

The Senior Minister, Dr Yaw Osafo Marfo has called on members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana to help the...

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Ofosu Kwakye Accuses Senior Minister of Inciting Ashantis Against NDC

A former Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has described the notion by Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Mafo...

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NDC Can’t Be Blamed For NHIS Debt – Alex Segbefia

The immediate past Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia, has said his administration will not accept responsibility for...

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Minister Not Sure When Arrears Owed NHIS Providers Would Be Paid

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has admitted he is not in position to assure NHIS service providers when...

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Health Minister Was Unprepared For Parliament’s Questions

The Member of Parliament for Wa West, Joseph Yieleh Chireh has suggested that the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman...

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Gov’t To Organise Stakeholders’ Forum On Health Insurance

Government is to hold a national stakeholders forum to find sustained solutions to the National Health Insurance Scheme...

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Parliament Approves GHc2.2m For NHIS

Parliament has approved the formula for the disbursement of the National Health Insurance Fund for 2017. A total of 2.2...

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Bawumia Charges Board

The Vice President Mahmmud Bawumia has charged the newly constituted Board of Directors of the National Health...

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Veep Tasks New NHIA Board To Rescue, Resuscitate Scheme

Vice- President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has inaugurated a 17-member Board for the National Health Insurance Authority...