Dr, i am sure no one, especially parents, will disagree with you on your suggestion to include a service in the NHIS to save the lives of helpless little children. However, as a people, we make these beautiful public statemen ... read full comment
Dr, i am sure no one, especially parents, will disagree with you on your suggestion to include a service in the NHIS to save the lives of helpless little children. However, as a people, we make these beautiful public statements in isolation without making the necessary linkages to help our readers, listeners and potential donors/sponsors make informed decisions.
We are all aware, at least through media coverage, that the NHIS is going through some tough financial challenges resulting in it owing healthcare providers several months of unpaid claims, which is in turn culminating in non-availability of essential drugs and non-drug consumables at the health facilities which is negatively impacting quality healthcare delivery. Need i mention the recent, almost daily, threats by healthcare providers to withdraw services to NHIS subscribers and to revert to the dreaded cash-n-carry?
So the obvious question is 'does it make sense to call for the addition of services/costs to an organization/policy that is facing difficulties in meeting its existing obligations?
Dr, do you know and can you share we your readers, why the NHIS is unable to fulfill its financial obligations to its partners/healthcare providers? In order to not bore all of us with a long write-up, I refer you(google it) to a communique issued by stakeholders including civil society, healthcare providers from public private and CHAG groups, political parties,the media etc after a stakeholders engagement somewhere in October 2014 to deliberate on sustainability of the NHIS. This document provides some clues to guide all of us, as a nation and as owners of the NHIS, in deciding on whether to add more services to it or not. And to explore other means of making such life-saving additional services to everyone in Ghana, especially the poor and vulnerable such as children.
Thank you.
Dr, i am sure no one, especially parents, will disagree with you on your suggestion to include a service in the NHIS to save the lives of helpless little children. However, as a people, we make these beautiful public statemen ...
read full comment