They said the government is starving the scheme of the necessary funds to effectively provide healthcare for its subscribers.<\/p>\n
But government has rejected the claims<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n Acting Director of Corporate Affairs at the authority Dr. Nii Anang Adjetey told\u00a0Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0these recommendations are to help revamp the scheme which is currently in dire need of money.<\/p>\n The Christian Health Association Ghana (CHAG) also in July 2014 turned away NHIS card bearers from their facilities<\/a><\/strong><\/span> because the scheme owed them about 50 million cedis.<\/p>\n The Ghana Chamber of Pharmacy also threatened to stop supplying drugs to health insurance service providers<\/a><\/strong><\/span> because of indebtedness.<\/p>\n Dr. Adjetey \u00a0insisted that \u201cthe consistent refrain on this matter has been that the NHIS needs more money. The scheme has expanded and there was the need for additional income and we\u2019ve made this appeal time and time again so at the stakeholder\u2019s conference it became obvious that the scheme needed more money.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s more than ten years now, the obvious thing is that somehow additional funding must be found for the National Health Insurance scheme,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The stakeholders also called for the benefit package for subscribers to be reviewed<\/a><\/strong><\/span> \u00a0to ensure the sustainability of the scheme.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has urged government to halt attempts to roll out the capitation mode of paying NHIS<\/a><\/strong><\/span> claims in the country because the system being piloted in the Ashanti Region has\u00a0 failed.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n![\"bench\"](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bench.jpg\")
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