According to President Akufo-Addo, the National Health Insurance System (NHIS) paid a total claim of GH1.014 billion to healthcare providers as of December 31, 2022.
He claimed that was as a result of the program’s enhanced claims management procedures, which placed a focus on electronic claims and paperless systems at its Claims Processing Centers.
In the State of the Nation Address (SONA) he gave on Wednesday in Accra, he predicted that in 2022, processing of electronic claims would account for roughly 70% (70%) of all submissions.
“We must be cheered by the improvements being made in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to make access easier. The scheme is currently one of the better-digitalized institutions, and I hope they get the public support that they need,” he said.
The President lauded the NHIA for developing a self-enrolment mobile application (My NHIS App) that allowed Ghana Card holders to self-enrol in the scheme, as the application enabled registration and renewal for oneself and others by linking NHIS cards to Ghana cards.
“In 2022, over 5 million members’ data was linked to their Ghana card to enable them to access healthcare using the card,” he said.
He said his administration introduced drones in the delivery of critical medicine, vaccines, and blood to people in remote parts of the country “and today, Ghana has the largest medical drone delivery service in the world with six Zipline Distribution Centres in Omenako, Mpanya, Vobsi, Sefwi Wiawso, Kete Krachi and Anum”.
The President said Zipline, through the national-scale drone delivery services, had delivered some 14.8 million (14,809,463) units of life-saving medicals, vaccines, and blood products to health facilities in Ghana by the end of 2022.
He said childhood vaccines top the list with the delivery of 8.3 million doses, followed by 2.05 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines.