The Bawku Mutual Health Insurance Scheme is embarking on a week-long special registration exercise in 20 communities in the Bawku Municipality and its environs to promote good public health.

The exercise is to get the registration to the door steps of clients and potential ones to make health care more accessible.

The scheme hopes to register about 1,000 clients during the exercise.

Mr. Asaana Salifu-Moro, Public Relations Officer of the scheme told the GNA in an interview that the exercise is also to educate clients not to allow their insurance cards to expire for more than three months.

He said when the cards expire that long, it creates enormous problems for the Scheme and does not allow it to grow to the expectation of the management.

Consequently, a penalty would be imposed on clients whose cards expire beyond three months expiration period to deter others.

He advised pregnant women to register with the Scheme and desist from double registration as they are being registered for free.

He explained that women who subscribed to the Scheme before becoming pregnant should not register again but draw the attention of the Scheme to their new condition.

The Manager of the Scheme, Mr. Mohammed Seidu Abugri, likened the NHIS to a national cake which every Ghanaian must enjoy, however, he urged, all stakeholders must contribute to make it sustainable.**