CPP pledges to review NHIS policy to cover all ailments

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The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has pledged to review the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) policy to cover all ailments when voted into power in the 2020 elections.

It said appropriate measures would be put in place to ensure there is free medical screening for the citizenry as well as institute pragmatic policies and programmes which would focus on preventive aspects of the health system.

The party would also ensure that the vulnerable, including people in poor communities, have access to free, affordable and quality health care services so as to build a strong and healthy human resource base for sustainable national development.

“The NHIS is key policy which will aid in attainment of universal health coverage for the citizenry but did not presently cover all sicknesses including laboratory examinations and some drugs prescribed at hospitals, denying the ordinary citizen quality health care delivery,” the party lamented.

Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, the 2016  presidential candidate of the CPP, made the revelation in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region at the regional delegates’ congress which was organised to elect new regional executives.

He explained that strategic improvement of the health sector would be undertaken to make a paradigm shift from treatment to prevention of diseases through a comprehensive health scheme.

“The next CPP government will work hard to create job avenues for the citizenry so as to reduce unemployment, raise living standards and contribute to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr, the Acting General Secretary of CCP, said a CPP government would channel its energy into developing a solid human capital through strong health and free accessible educational systems for sustainable national growth, development and cohesion.

GNA

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