{"id":181425,"date":"2016-01-13T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=181425"},"modified":"2016-01-13T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T12:36:18","slug":"gender-ministry-registers-tamale-prisoners-on-nhis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/01\/gender-ministry-registers-tamale-prisoners-on-nhis\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Ministry registers Tamale Prisoners on NHIS"},"content":{"rendered":"
A total of 297 inmates of the Tamale Central Prisons will henceforth benefit from the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is generously registering both convicts and those on remand as part of its social interventions.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”YKkqSsm4Rj6nOGUybCv6XPWtGbaTO3xp”]This followed the prison authority\u2019s plea at a public forum in Tamale on the review of the National Health Insurance Scheme that government should freely register the inmates.<\/p>\n
By extension, the ministry fete 500 aged at the Tamale Jubilee Park and registered them under the NHIS.<\/p>\n
The sector Minister, Mrs. Oye Lithur supervised the two activities and said it was in line with government\u2019s pro-poor policy.<\/p>\n
She reiterated government\u2019s commitment to improve the livelihood of the destitute in society.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Oye Lithur hinted her ministry\u2019s forward march to replicate the interventions across the country.<\/p>\n
The Northern Regional Prisons Commander, Deputy Director of Prisons, Robert Abundant Awulugutu complained about overcrowding.<\/p>\n
He emphasized the need for decongestion alongside a major rehabilitation to improve the ambiance there.<\/p>\n
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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A total of 297 inmates of the Tamale Central Prisons will henceforth benefit from the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is generously registering both convicts and those on remand as part of its social interventions. [contextly_sidebar id=”YKkqSsm4Rj6nOGUybCv6XPWtGbaTO3xp”]This followed the prison authority\u2019s plea at a public forum in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":181426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n