Greater Accra NHIA exceeds targets
The Greater Accra Regional Office of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) exceeded its target for 2015, making it the second overall best performing scheme in the country.
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The region exceeded its premium generation by 30 per cent from GH¢6.5 million to GH¢8.7 million while membership enrolment also went up from 1.2 million to 1.4 million.
The Greater Accra Regional Director of the scheme, Mr Lawrence Amartey, disclosed this at the 2015 annual performance review meeting in Accra.
Coverage
He said the region had developed more strategies to widen its coverage to include the poor and especially schoolchildren to ensure universal health coverage for all.
The director said the scheme would, between April and June this year, register children from 625 schools which were under the school feeding programme in the region.
In addition, Mr Amartey said the scheme also intended to register children at all accredited orphanages within the region. They include inmates of the Accra and Pantang Psychiatric hospitals, the leprosarium and the borstal institute.
He said it would also widen stakeholder engagement to get more people, especially opinion leaders, included.
Targets
According to him, there were 14 district offices of the NHIS in the Greater Accra Region out of which four were satellite offices with 664 workers.
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He said although the scheme faced a number of challenges last year, all the offices exceeded their targets due to hard work and dedication, as well as proper planning and stakeholder engagement.
Mr Amartey described such achievements as unprecedented in the region and commended the staff for their commitment and hard work.
The Head of Public Affairs of the NHIA, Dr Anang Adjetey, also expressed appreciation to the workers for their untiring efforts that sustained the scheme despite the numerous challenges.
He urged them to strive hard to achieve all the targets for this year as well.