More people subscribe to Health Insurance in Volta region

Ho, Feb. 3, GNA - A total of 1,470,784 people have subscribed to the membership of the National Health Insurance Scheme in the Volta Region by 31 December 2011.
This represents “more than 70 percent of the total population of 2,099,876 based on the 2010 provisional census figure” and the Authority hopes to increase its subscribers to about 80 percent by the end of 2012.
Mr Elliot Nestor Akototse, Volta Regional Manager of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), said this at the 2011 end- of- year review workshop in Ho.
He said active members of » Read More

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