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NHIA: Visit nearest Gov’t health facility if cash is requested

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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    What a shame. It is not every place that there is a 'nearest' government hospital. Where are the monies collected from Ghanaians to finance the NHIS?

  • William 11 years ago

    The nearest Govt Hospitals and other service providers have not received payment for Sept 2012 up to date. How are they expected to provide the service. With what money.

  • xy 11 years ago

    will the govt hospitals use stones to purchase medicine to serve them? the govt hospitals are also going to reject the nhis soon!!! admit the demonic ndc have stolen all ghana's money through woyome-like azaa judgement debts. ...
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  • Opoku 11 years ago

    The government has come clean to say that we are not generating enough revenue to meet our ever increasing expenses, hence a deficit in the budget read. All of this money shortage feeds into no cash to run the health sector a ...
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  • Unumi Bununya a.k.a Teteman Boy 11 years ago

    What a shame indeed.

    Can someone talk to the President to hire me for the job? I will sign a performance contract, stabilize the NHIA in one year, and work the next three years to make it into a real health insurance organ ...
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  • James, Accra 11 years ago

    Performance contract or none, if the same government or president that you lobbying hasn't released the funds to pay the hospitals will you use money from your savings to pay? Get serious and deal with situations pragmaticall ...
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  • patrick 11 years ago

    this apology letter does not even have a signiture appended to it. who wrote it in the name of the NHIA? our educational systems needs a change becouse we are producing irresponsible leaders.

  • xy 11 years ago

    600,000,000 ghana cedis equivalent to 6,000,000,000,000 old cedis has been misused by government without any explanation. that is ndc government for you. this can pay all the nhis debt but has been stolen!!!!!!! did u really ...
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  • Efua 11 years ago

    Clearly, u have a mission. U are partisan and parochial. Deal with the issue on the table and stop the insults. U know how far the nhis has come?

  • bright 11 years ago

    but if i go to gov hosp, is it not the same debt am bringing to de health sector?? i prefer dat we shd pay so dat next time we shall noe how to manage n use our nhis well..

  • WADATA 11 years ago

    THIS IS THE MOST IRRESPONSIBLE STATEMENT ANY STATE INSTITUTION CAN ISSUE. DO THEY KNOW WHERE GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS ARE LOCATED IN GHANA AND HOW MANY THERE ARE?INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING THE ISSUE LISTEN TO WHAT INSULT THEY ARE THRO ...
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  • Joe 11 years ago

    Wadata, clearly u dont understand the issues. What u shd be advocating rather is for our public finance administrative systems to be simplified. Do u know how long it takes to process or get funds from govt? The bureaucracies ...
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  • bansi 11 years ago

    nonsense. so they have a STRATEGIC DIVISION? useless brains at work. it is mahama i blame for his inaction. it is three months already and see what is going on. no light, no water, no gas and now no NHIA. dis no dey bee!

  • Esi 11 years ago

    Bansi, clearly u are getting personal with this. Should the strategic division make govt release the 2.5% NHIL in the consolidated fund? What u shd be asking is why does it take our successive govts so long to release statuto ...
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