Let’s save NHIS now!

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has expressed worry over the huge debts owed some major hospitals by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) that threaten to collapse those institutions.

According to the GMA, the NHIA owed major public health facilities in the Greater Accra Region and four health facilities in the Ashanti Region a total of GH₵22,701,517.

The association, therefore, called on the Ministry of Health (MoH) to actively engage the Ministry of Finance to, as a matter of urgency, get the NHIA to pay all amounts owed health facilities across the country in order to save them from total collapse. It has been said over and over again that the health of a country’s population is its wealth.

That stems from the fact that the progress of a country rests on a solid and dependable resource of humans who possess the needed capacity to undertake the various tasks and responsibilities.

To be able to achieve this, the human resource base must