Respect NHIS subscribers — Sherry Ayittey

The outgoing Minister of Health, Ms Sherry Hanny Ayittey, has called on healthcare providers to treat National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) subscribers with dignity and respect.

She said reports of verbal abuse of subscribers by healthcare providers, undue delay in attending to clients, as well as charging and collecting unauthorised fees from NHIS subscribers, affected the credibility of the scheme.  

She noted that the NHIS is a national asset that must be protected and supported by all. 

Ms Ayittey, who was addressing the press when the Ministry of Health took its turn at the meet-the-press series in Accra, said the sale of medicines to patients with the excuse that they were not included in the NHIS medicines list also hurt the confidence of subscribers in the scheme.

Health financing

“The NHIS, undoubtedly, is the most successful health financing strategy we as a country have crafted for ourselves. Indee