{"id":1266330,"date":"2022-12-16T23:44:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T23:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/its-better-to-be-on-nhis-you-access-healthcare-without-paying-from-your-pocket-okoe-boye\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T23:44:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T23:44:23","slug":"its-better-to-be-on-nhis-you-access-healthcare-without-paying-from-your-pocket-okoe-boye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/its-better-to-be-on-nhis-you-access-healthcare-without-paying-from-your-pocket-okoe-boye\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s better to be on NHIS, you access healthcare without paying from your pocket &#8211; Okoe-Boye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Okoe-Boye\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Okoe-Boye-696x522.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Okoe-Boye-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Okoe-Boye\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>The CEO of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye has said it is better to be registered onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) despite some of the challenges that exist than not be on any health insurance scheme at all.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since he assumed office as CEO, he said his main focus has been how to make it easier for people to be registered onto the scheme to enable them have access to health care without paying from their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with TV3\u2019s Johnnie Hughes, the former lawmaker for Ledzokuku said \u201cwhen you take Ghana\u2019s national health insurance, I think it is the most innovative, social policy we have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a policy that allows citizens to be able to access health care, go to the hospital and not pay out of pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added \u201cI always argue out that National Health Insurance Scheme, with all its challenges and opportunities, is still better than not being on any scheme at all. Since I got there I have been interested in ways to make it easier for people to register onto the scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"jzRYN-yMqUw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#TV3NewDay  Exclusive interview with Dr Bernard Oko Boye, CEO NHIS\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jzRYN-yMqUw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye has said it is better to be registered onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) despite some of the challenges that exist than not be on any health insurance scheme at all.\u00a0 Since he assumed office as CEO, he said his main focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266330","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=1266330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}