A research by non-governmental organisation, SEND-GHANA, has revealed that more than half of the population of the Upper West region are not registered on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).<\/p>\n
This revelation was made by a program officer of SEND-GHANA, Adamu Mukaila.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”05lAwniUxbyQeJGHGNMS0n9Rj46urUHy”]According to Mukaila, only about 14% of the people in the Upper West region, who are among the extremely poor in the region, are registered on NHIS.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the case of the Upper West region, if you take the extreme poor population, it is about 45% of the total population of the region. But our research found out that only 14% of those, some of whom cannot even feed themselves, have been registered under the national health insurance. This means that about 31% of them have not been registered under the NHIS,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The situation is not much different in the Northern and Upper East Regions.<\/p>\n
Adamu Mukaila explained that \u201cin the Upper East and the Northern regions; 21 and 22% of the population who are among the extremely poor are not registered.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also advised that when making analysis on these figures, Ghanaians must consider the living standard survey by the Ghana Statistical Service, which states that 24.2% of Ghanaians are considered poor, which translates into about 6.4 million people.<\/p>\n
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By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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