GOOD NEWS FROM NHIA

June 25, 2022
3 years ago

Messes around with General Medical care Cards who experience the evil impacts of sickle cell contamination or infection will get free clinical thought start from July 2022.

 

This has been confirmed by the President for the Public Clinical service Authority (NHIA), Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye.

 

The NHIA Boss uncovered this during a visit to Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin.

 

Dr. Okoe-Boye showed that the public authority has embraced hydroxyurea Sickle cell treatment drug under the arrangement for a rollout beginning one month from this point alongside the treatment of children with harmful development.

 

According to him, the move is fundamental for tries by the public position to give lightening to youths and gatekeepers enrolled for the assistance.

 

"Through Nana Akuffo Addo, we are devising new drives, today we have loosened up the medical care to cover explicit things at first it won't cover. At first the assurance don't cover kids who encounters infection yet as of now from the next month July adolescents with threatening development will be managed free at whatever point they have enrolled on the medical care.

 

The ensuing one is about jokes with sickle cell, There is an extraordinary medicine considered hydroxyzine urea that we have had the choice to navigate the skilled drive of Nana Akuffo Addo, and this prescription while accommodating a sickle cell patient it take impressive measures and give them enough nature of lives to leave long with basically no encountering hence one month from now medical care will manage sickle cell patients, Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye shared.

 

That is the very thing that another new intercession is, people 70 years or more who register or re-energize their NHIS card will get second incitation to engage them to get second clinical thought if essential.

 

At the present time, the blueprint per the law is that individuals 70 years or more pay no cost while enlisting for clinical service.

 

You potentially pay the taking care of cost of GHS5 if you stay in a commonplace district and GHS7 if you are a city tenant.