Over 250 Children To Access Free Health Care

Voices of African Mothers(VAM), an NGO in collaboration with the Tanoso Hospital has registered over two hundred and fifty (250) children at Tanoso a surburb in Kumasi and its neighbouring towns in the Ashanti Region onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to enable them access free health care.

The registration exercise which took place at the Tanoso Hospital saw numerous parents with their children patronizing the NHIS card.

The one week program targeting about 250 children registered more than the targeted number on the first day of the exercise.

Founder of VAM, Mrs. Nana Fosu Randall explained that the exercise is part of VAM's responsibility to the community to help children have access to basic health care.

She said, "In Africa especially in Ghana, when I travel from country to country, I see how some of the children suffer. They become so sick and the parents cannot take them to hospital so I decided to help them to at least have access to basic health care."

Mrs. Randall hinted that she is ready to pay for every child who comes to register and also expect about 1000 children to be registered at the end of the week long program.

Speaking to the co-founder of Tanoso Hospital, Dr. Kwaku Banfo Bandoh disclosed that the registration exercise would help the facility and the community as a whole because most of the people in the community are unable to afford the cost of health delivery.

He, therefore, urged Ghanaians and authorities to stop politicizing the NHIS to help improve health delivery in the nation.

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