By Masahudu Kunateh
GHANA'S National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has taken immediate steps to ensure effective verification of all its subscribers through the ongoing biometric registration exercise in the country.
The exercise forms part of moves to satisfy the health needs of all subscribers of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
The biometric registration exercise which is being piloted started in the Greater Accra, Central and Eastern regions of Ghana.
The Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of Operations at the NHIA, Nathaniel Otoo, disclosed that about 32 000 identification cards had so far been printed.
According to him, plans were on course to partner with Non-Governmental Organizations and Community Based Organizations to migrate all NHIS subscribers onto the digital data system.
Otoo also disclosed that all NHIS identification cards will be synchronized.
Director of Management Information Systems at the NHIA, Perry Nelson ,meanwhile announced delays in production of identification cards to beneficiaries and ineffective health provider authentication as some of the challenges which needed immediate attention.
He anticipated that the biometric registration exercise would improve the NHIA's health financing regime.
Data showed that the NHIA at the end of 2013 recorded 9,8 million active members.
Also, the NHIA recorded 27 million hospital attendances each year.
Source Caj News Africa
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