Former President John Dramani Mahama has said, National Health Insurance card holders are denied common medicines at various hospitals across the country.
The former President made the pronouncement in the Upper East Region during his two days official tour to meet with party delegates ahead of the upcoming Parliamentary primaries on May 13.
Addressing delegates, the former President said: “As for National Health Insurance we don’t talk at all. It is simply not working and that is because the government is not refunding the claims of the hospital facilities after they have treated National Health Insurance holders. In our time, you could go with your National Health Insurance Card and you will be looked after, you go to the dispensary cough mixture, they will give you paracetamol, and they will give antibiotics. Today, if you go to the hospital after the look of things, you won’t get even paracetamol. You have to go and buy from the drug store, so NDC is coming to restore the National Health Insurance. We will make sure that the levy we collect goes to the purpose for which it will be used”.
According to Mr. Mahama, what this government has done is that they have capped the National Health Insurance and so, when the money comes, they take some of it and for them to release it they won’t release it. For the last year or so they have not released any money to the National Health Insurance and so, we don’t what kind of government this is? He asked
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