{"id":1083170,"date":"2022-05-10T21:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/nhis-is-collapsing-under-akufo-addo-minority\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T21:42:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T21:42:46","slug":"nhis-is-collapsing-under-akufo-addo-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/nhis-is-collapsing-under-akufo-addo-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"NHIS is collapsing under Akufo-Addo \u2013 Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-05-10-at-9.36.44-AM-696x464.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Minority in parliament\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Minority in Parliament has said the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) faces imminent collapse due to the delay on the part of government in releasing funds. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference, the Ranking Member on the Health Committee and MP for Juaboso, Kwabena Mintah Akando accused the government of misapplying funds under the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority claims some service providers are threatening to withdraw services if government does not pay monies owed them.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, Hon Akandoh said the NHIS is now in \u2018medical comatose\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He also alleged that, out of the GHS 2.06 billion collected in 2021, only GHS 127.47million representing 6% was released to the fund.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Akandoh indicated that, between 2018 and 2020, the government collected over GHS 5.1 billion, an abysmal average release of 41.2 % contrary to the NHIS law.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority has therefore asked the government to with immediate effect release funds to avoid the collapse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is the full statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Cu0U9wHpdTRvzq4TzWlvhz-qAgm8Ab5z\/preview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"KTZNa1I-ucM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Transport Fare Increment Yet To Take Effect In Kumasi - Adom TV News (10-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KTZNa1I-ucM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament has said the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) faces imminent collapse due to the delay on the part of government in releasing funds. Speaking at a press conference, the Ranking Member on the Health Committee and MP for Juaboso, Kwabena Mintah Akando accused the government of misapplying funds under the scheme. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[648,3496,3386,4672],"class_list":{"0":"post-1083170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-akufoaddo","9":"tag-collapsing","10":"tag-minority","11":"tag-nhis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}