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MPs equip health centre at Ho Central Prisons

+ Some Members of Parliament (MPs), mostly from the Volta Regional Caucus, have contributed to purchasing medical equipment, worth GH¢65,780 to enhance service delivery at the Ho Central Prisons’ health centre. The initiative was at the insistence of Mrs Angela Alorwu-Tay, MP for Afadzato South, to coincide with her 50th Anniversary, which fell on April 16. She said the initiative was the social responsibility of the MPs to the inmates and prison officers. Mrs Alorwu-Tay stated that plans were afoot to upgrade the health centre and as a friend of the Prison, solicit for drugs from pharmaceutical companies for the centre. She pledged to secure used clothing for inmates and donateD 100 bags of cement for improvement of works at the Prison.

Revamp NHIS – ICU Tells Government

  The government must invest in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to lessen the health burden on the ordinary people, especially workers. The General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Mr Solomon Kotei, said the NHIS was beset with challenges that could threaten its very existence, and eventually take a toll on the people, especially workers. Speaking at Tema Regional Council, Youth and Women s conference of the ICU yesterday, Mr Kotei mentioned, specifically, delays in payment to service providers. He appealed to the government to handle that challenge with dispatch to ensure timeous payment to service providers.

Stakeholders want NHIS to absorb cost of medical report for victims of sexual, gender-based assault

+ Victims of sexual and gender-based violence are often challenged when it comes to footing the bills for their medical reports. Such bills, costing between GH¢300 and GH¢1,000, are not covered under the National Health Insurance Scheme. The quest for justice in the prosecution of perpetrators is therefore impeded. Stakeholders in the fight against sexual and gender-based violence are therefore pushing for the absorption of such costs by the NHIS. Failure to get signed medical reports in cases  of abuse often leave suspected offenders to go scot free. “The main point of advocacy is about medical reports.  We all came to agree that rather than tackle the doctors charging the fee because there is an argument that they also need it for the transport and own expenses, the surest way is getting it added to NHIS so that they can cover the cost”, Anthony Boateng  Bediako, Director of Abuse Relief Corps told stakeholders at a workshop.  

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