"Even Nana Addo knows that NHIS collapses" – NDC

General News of Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Source: peacefmonline.com

2019-04-16

The National Democratic Party [NDC] says the National Health Insurance Plan (NHIS) is currently "gasping for air" and about to collapse under the government led by Nana Addo.

The party claimed that the collapse was due to debts that the government owed to service providers across the country.

Speaking at the third edition of the party's Moment of Truth series, national communications chief Sammy Gyamfi said, "Even the president knows it."

According to the opposition party, the NHIS currently owes service providers in all sixteen regions a twelve-month claim, which has plunged most health facilities into distress.

"Akufo-Addo peddled a blatant lie when he claimed that the NHIS was" dynamic and that he had come back to life ". In fact, the NHIS, well known to the President, is in a deplorable state and is desperate to breathe. At present, the NHIS owes service providers in Ghana's sixteen regions, covering a period of nearly twelve months. This has led most health facilities in distress »

"Our health facilities are paralyzed as a result of the NHIS 'huge debt to service providers"

The NDC also accused the government of illegally transferring more than 17 million GHC program funds into a private fund management company, All Time Capital Investment; a transaction that was conducted without due diligence and risk badessment.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have already shown you enough that the Akufo-Addo government misused non-monetary insurance funds, which hastens the end of the project." But some of the scandals we've discovered may be even more blatant, who conspired with the above to paralyze the regime.

"Our careful investigations revealed that upon the inauguration of President Akufo-Addo, the National Health Insurance Authority, without any due diligence and with indecent haste, had transferred ten -seven million, five hundred and forty-eight thousand, three hundred and seventy-seven Ghana Cedis and twenty pesewas (GH ¢ 17,548,377.20) in three tranches to a private financial corporation, All-Time Capital Limited, so-called as an investment ….

"….. it is this same financial company, All Time-Capital Limited, which was involved in the diversion of liquidity support provided by the Bank of Ghana to Capital Bank which eventually led to the creation of Sovereign Bank, which has collapsed In light of the above, there is no denying that this transaction is not limited to what we think, "said the NDC.