Ho MHIS networks operations…to provide quality service
The Ho Municipal Mutual Health Insurance Scheme (MHIS) is making significant improvement, since the introduction of the scheme in the area, as management of the scheme continues to adopt means to increase membership, as well as improve upon the general operations of the scheme.
As a result, management has also put in place measures to open new offices at Kpedze and Dzolo-Kpuita, to enable people in communities around that area, have easy access to the scheme, which is aimed at attracting the people to the facility.
The Ho Municipal Scheme Manager, Mr. Prosper Pi-Bansah, who made this known at the Annual General Meeting of the scheme in Ho, said efforts were being made to ensure that people living in the rural communities did not find it difficult to register, hence the establishment of the two external offices.
He continued that the scheme had brought much relief to the vulnerable, who before the introduction of the scheme, had no means to pay medical services at the various clinics and hospitals, but as a result could now heave a sigh of relief.
Mr. Pi-Bansah pointed out that in spite of the initial teething problems, the Ho Municipal Health Insurance Scheme was able to register, to date, 107, 751 people, covering 57 per cent of the entire population, noting that the Scheme Management had identified a number of problems confronting the smooth operation of the scheme, and would address such problems in due time.
He mentioned delay in issuing ID Cards, manual processing of claims, delays in issuing membership cards to subscribers, and the perceived discrimination against NHIS card-bearers, as some of the problems associated with the scheme, which would be addressed as early as possible.
The Head of the Management Information System of the Scheme, Mr. Stanley Ntem, said an internationally acclaimed ICT firm had been contracted, to provide an integrated network system to link the Mutual Health Scheme office to all the providers within its area of operation.
He disclosed that the health institutions, which were benefiting from the integrated network system to link the mutual Health Scheme Office, were the Ho Municipal Hospital, Ho Poly Clinic, Volta Regional Hospital, and a private accredited clinic, Miracle Life Clinics, well as another in the Ho Municipality.
The system would help in networking the Scheme and the service providers, for electronic processing as well as payment of claims on line, to avoid the current system of processing documents manually.
Source: Samuel Agbewode, Ho - Ghanaian Chronicle
