Pay NHIS Service Providers – Akandoh barks

Minority spokesman on Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has urged the Government, to urgently pay monies due NHIS service providers without further delay.

According to him, the government has since July 2021, refused to fulfill its obligations to these service providers, thus suffocating them for smooth operation. He could not comprehend why this obligation should not be fulfilled though monies in this regard, which he referred to as the most reliable are readily paid on all usable commodities and services.

Hon. Akandoh made this call in an interview with the Parliamentary Press Corps in Parliament House last Thursday. He maintained that because of the government’s suffocation of NHIS providers, they have threatened to withdraw their services.

“And in this regard, it is the ordinary Ghanaian who suffers and not those at the helm of affairs!” he bemoaned.

He indicated that recently when the Minister of Finance fell sick, he was flown aboard for treatment, but this cannot be enjoyed by the ordinary Ghanaian. Hon. Akandoh stated that by the failure of the government to pay the service providers their money, it was subsequently depriving the innocent Ghanaian his health care.

The vociferous Member of Parliament for Juaboso referred to this situation as “pathetic and unfortunate”. He maintained that nothing seemed to be working under the President Nana Akufo-Addo led government.

Asked if he would go to court, he answered in the negative. According to him, he had filed many questions in this regard but there had been no response so far. He indicated that not perturbed, he will fight it on the floor of the House.

By S.O. Ankamah