Government has been accused of plundering the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and siphoning its inadequate funds to pay nursing training allowance.
According to the information, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration led by Nana Akufo-Addo has fallen on the NHIS subscription fees of Ghanaians to fund its campaign promise to students of nursing colleges.
Ranking Member of the Health Committee in Parliament, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, disclosed this in an interview with GhanaCrusader.com on Thursday.
He accused the Akufo-Addo administration of caring less for the future of the healthcare sector and therefore taking decisions inimical to the future and sustenance of the health sector.
He warned that the sector is gradually heading for doom if the government continues to take decisions and use funds meant to provide quality healthcare to finance political campaign ventures.
Mr. Akandoh argued the subscribers’ fees should be used to, not only pay the service providers but to also bring the much-needed improvements in the sector including upgrading facilities and constructing new ones.
“The most sensitive sector of any country is the health sector; that is not to say other sectors are not important but human health has precedence over all other sectors.”
“The health sector should be a priority but this government has lost focus.”
“Akufo-Addo has lost sight of what is important with regards to the sensitivity of this sector and treating healthcare anyhow,” he stated.
He charged the President to expedite action on the uncompleted and abandoned health facilities littered across the country and also make the already completed ones fully operational.
