The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has assured that shortages it has encountered with printing of ID cards for subscribers will be resolved within a week.
In some parts of the country, persons whose NHIA cards have expired and are due for renewal as well as new subscribers to the National Health Insurance Scheme have complained about their inability to obtain the cards.
Selorm Adonoo, the NHIA’s Director of Communications, confirmed that the Authority had encountered shortages in some parts of the country as there was a “delay” in obtaining the cards which are imported, but admitted that although the problem was “widespread”, it was “not entirely the case everywhere”.
“It’s true. We’ve had a little challenge regarding supply chain issues with some of the materials. But we are almost over it. By next week we will take delivery of some of the materials, so we believe very soon all these things will become things of the past,” he told Chief Jerry Forson on Gahna Yensom on Accra100.5FM.
He, however, added that the development underscored the fact that most people were eager to access health insurance documents in order to be “part of the health insurance scheme so they can take advantage” of its services.
“We hope that by next week everything will fall in place so that all who went there and did not get their cards will have them when they go back to those centres,” he added.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
