{"id":165159,"date":"2015-11-07T10:06:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T10:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=165159"},"modified":"2015-11-07T10:06:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T10:06:08","slug":"poor-not-benefitting-from-nhis-send-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/11\/poor-not-benefitting-from-nhis-send-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor not benefitting from NHIS \u2013 SEND Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This revelation was made by a program officer of SEND-GHANA, Adamu Mukaila.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;05lAwniUxbyQeJGHGNMS0n9Rj46urUHy&#8221;]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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The situation is not much different in the Northern and Upper East Regions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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). 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