NHIS agents to be given operational licence

Cape Coast, Dec. 15, GNA - The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) will issue special operational license to all National Health Insurance Scheme(NHIS) agents in 2010.

The agents will be required to provide reliable and dependable guarantors to stand as a surety to qualify them for the license. The move is designed to curb embezzlement and instil a high sense of financial discipline in the implementers of the new health delivery policy. Mr Hudu Issah, Operations Manager of NHIA, dropped the hint at a four-day workshop in Cape Coast organised by the Authority for scheme managers, public relations officers, claims and management information systems managers of the scheme in the Central Region.

It was meant to update the knowledge of the NHIS officials on the revised operations, monitoring and evaluation manuals guiding the day-to-day administration of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District schemes to ensure efficient and effective operation.

Mr Issah who was assisted by the Acting Central Manager of the NHIA, Mr Augustine Acquah, took participants through all the key issues bothering the general operations of the NHIS.

The participants called for the provision of working tools and equipment as well as better working conditions to spur them on for greater achievements. They pledged to ensure effective and more efficient application of all the guidelines in the revised operations manuals to give accurate and reliable information to the NHIA for national consumption whenever the need arise. 15 Dec. 09