1,620 Prisoners registered under NHIS
INMATES of four prison centres in the Central Region have been registered under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), in line with an exercise to offer prisoners easy access to health care.
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The inmates, numbering 1,620, were drawn from the Ankaful Main, Annex, Maximum, and the Winneba Prisons. They were registered under the exercise by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) in the Central Region.
All the beneficiaries were given new NHIA Biometric Identification Cards to enable them to access health care anywhere in the country.
The Central Regional Director of the NHIA, Mr Francis Oti-Frimpong, headed the two registration teams from Cape Coast and the Winneba offices of the NHIA to execute the programme.
He explained that the exercise was a collaboration between the NHIA and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, and was designed to principally offer prisoners easy access to quality health care.
Follow-up
He said the exercise was a follow-up to the Nsawam Prisons Inmates’ registration, which was witnessed recently by the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, at the Nsawam Prisons.
The Director of Membership and Regional Operations, Mr Ben Kusi, commended the scheme for the exercise, and advised the staff to register all the vulnerable in the region per the adopted guidelines.
The Central Regional Minister, Mr Thomas Aquinas Tawiah Quansah, thanked the team for the exercise and promised government's support for all progammes and activities geared towards the general well-being of vulnerable citizens in the region. - GNA.
