MTN registers 100 disaster victims on NHIS

MTN Ghana Foundation in collaboration with National Disaster Management Organisation and National Health Insurance Authority, has registered 100 victims of the June 3 disaster on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

The Foundation has paid GH? 2,400 to register the victims and a total of GH? 2,600 paid into their mobile money wallet.

Mr Robert Kuzoe, Executive Secretary of MTN Ghana Foundation said health is one of the focus areas of the Foundation and that the gesture would provide the victims with the means to seek timely and appropriate health care throughout their recovery period.

He said the Foundation had distributed food and relief packages to Glefe community, a suburb of Dansoman and Ledzokuku- Krowor, Municipal Assembly, organised blood donation exercise to assist emergency health services across the capital in support of the disaster.

Mr Kuzoe said the MTN staff in partnership with Zoomlion visited Odawna, near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to clean up the debris left behind by the floods and provided water for the affected communities.

“We believe this initiative would provide some relief for the affected victims, serve as comfort to the beneficiaries and use the opportunity to once again express our sincere condolences to those who lost members of their families,” he added.

Mr Kuzoe urged all and sundry to keep the environment clean and avoid indiscriminate dumping of refuse because clean environment is a collective responsibility.

Some of the beneficiaries who spoke to the Ghana News Agency thanked the Foundation and other organisations for the gesture, adding that their support has demonstrated their commitment to victims of natural disasters.