[ 2016-11-17 ]

NHIA owes us 8 months claims – Donkorkrom Presby Hospital tells Akufo-Addo
The Managing Director of the Donkorkrom
Presbyterian Hospital has lamented the persistent
delays in the payment of claims owed them by the
National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA).

According to Mr. Kwaku Fianko Gyan, in the case of
the Donkorkrom Prebyterian Hospital, the NHIA has
for the last eight months, been unable to pay
claims submitted to them for persons who accessed
healthcare at the facility using the National
Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

The MD of the Donkorkrom Hospital indicated that,
“as we speak we have submitted all our claims
till September, but, the NHIA has reimbursed this
facility only for January 2016.”

Mr. Kwaku Fianko Gyan made this revelation on
Wednesday, November 16, 2016, when the 2016
presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party,
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, paid a visit to the
hospital as part of his tour of the Afram Plains
North constituency of the Eastern Region.

With the government of President John Dramani
Mahama and his assigns vehemently denying
suggestions that the National Health Insurance
Scheme is facing a major crisis and on the verge
of collapse, Mr. Kwaku Fianko Gyan, stated that
“the Health Insurance has been a major challenge
(across the country), and Donkorkorom is
part.”akufo-addo-with-kwaku-fianko-gyan-md-of-donkorkrom-presbyterian-hospital

This situation, in the view Mr. Kwaku Fianko Gyan,
means that “managing the facility has become
extremely difficult. You know, working in this
area, we have a lot of non-mechanised staff we
have to pay. At the end of the month it is
difficult. Your staff are looking up to you for
their meager salary.”

In addition to this, Mr. Gyan noted that the
indebtedness of the NHIA to the hospital has
resulted in the inability of the hospital to
procure medicines and other supplies needed to aid
the hospital in delivering quality healthcare to
residents of Donkorkrom.

“Drug issues, consumables, our suppliers are all
over the place, and this time if you call them
they don’t even respond to your calls. It is a
very big challenge that we are dealing with,” he
added.

Mr. Kwaku Fianko Gyan hoped that, sooner than
later, the “NHIA will do something about the
situation, because we are prepared to provide
healthcare to the people. It is up to them to
honour their part of their obligation so that the
people of Afram Plains will enjoy quality
care.”

The importance of making the NHIS work, according
to Mr. Kwaku Fianko Gyan, is borne out of the fact
that 98% of people who attend the Donkorkrom
Presbyterian Hospital use the NHIS card.

Source - Kasapafm

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