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NHIA Defends Capitation From Public Criticisms

Date :24th Jan, 2012
Source: Muftaw Mohammed/Kapital News

Public Relations Officer in charge of Corporate Affairs explains since the implementation of the capitation system, personnel of the National Health Insurance Authority have been moving around medical facilities monitoring the practical implementation.


George Oppong-Danquah hints so far, the NHIA has encountered challenges in the areas of the Primary Preferred Providers which clients have chosen.


Oppong Danquah explains instead of subscribers to seek treatment at their primary providers, they rather abuse the facility by visiting any of the selected three on the capitation.


Since its introduction on a pilot base in the Ashanti region, the capitation system has been greeted with series of controversies.


Private health providers a couple of weeks ago boycotted the new policy whiles the Ghana Medical Association has also been raising critiques of the new policy.


Just yesterday, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana also filed a law suit challenging the new mechanism.


General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association also today punched administrative errors in the new policy.


But George Oppong-Danquah adds, there is also a special facility for people who have not been put on the capitation and seek emergency treatment out of their original place of residence.

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