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General News of Tuesday, 16 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n2019-04-16\n\n

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General News of Tuesday, 16 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n

2019-04-16<\/p>\n

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\"PiusDeputy Information Minister, Pius Enam Hadzide<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Government has rubbished the National Democratic Congress\u2019 (NDC) alarms about the deteriorating state of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) under the Akufo-Addo administration.<\/p>\n

Deputy Information Minister, Pius Enam Hadzide said it is \u201cpalpably false when the NDC says that there is a loss of confidence in the scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n

He insisted that the Scheme\u2019s membership was only growing in recent years.<\/p>\n

\u201cContrary to the assertion, the fact is that the NHIS membership registration has rather surged from 18.6 million in 2016 to 20.1 million in 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n

The active membership of the scheme stands as 10,793,456 and \u201cthis is higher than the figure that the NDC quotes,\u201d Mr. Hadzide stated.<\/p>\n

In addition, he said there were 75,000 mobile renewals weekly.<\/p>\n

As far as the financial challenges are concerned, the government attributed them to funding gaps.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NDC confuses funding gaps of GHC425.7 million with total claims arrears of GHC1.2 billion as at December 2016 when they were exiting office.\u201d<\/p>\n

On top of the reported financial challenges with the scheme, the NDC recently accused the government of illegally transferring over GHC17 million of the NHIS\u2019 funds into a private fund management company, All Time Capital Investment.<\/p>\n

The party said the transaction was done without due diligence and risk assessment.<\/p>\n

The NDC\u2019s concerns on the state of the scheme are not without merit as a National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) CEO, Dr. Samuel Annor warned that the NHIS may not exist as we know it by 2020 because of its financing challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween 2009 and now, we have just been piling debts,\u201d Dr. Annor said of the NHIS in 2018.<\/p>\n

But in November 2018, the government said the GHC1.2 billion debt the Akufo-Addo administration met at the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has been cleared.<\/p>\n

The scheme\u2019s struggles prompted a proposal to increase the National Health Insurance Levy from 2.5% to 3.5% of VAT.<\/p>\n

The government subsequently separated the Health Insurance Fund Levy from the VAT giving it a straight levy of 2.5%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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