From George Ernest Asare, Nyinahin
Members of the Atwima Mponua District of the Ghana Federation of the disabled who are saddled with problems of sourcing quality health care due to lack of financial resources are to be registered to join the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
The gesture is to make quality health care readily accessible to the members to enable them to undertake productive ventures, thereby reducing the poverty rate among them.
The District Chairman of the association, Mr Moses Hubert Atia, who announced this during their maiden annual general meeting at Nyinahin, expressed concern about the poverty rate among some members.
He said the problem was undermining their quest to join the NHIS and therefore promised the Executive’s preparedness to register some of their members who are financially handicapped .
He explained that each year, the association would register 20 of the members to join the NHIS to reduce their plight.
Mr Atia advised the members to learn vocational skills as a way of building their capacity, adding that the association would provide the needed support to members eager to learn vocational skills.
This, he said, would offer them the opportunity to initiate their own businesses and generate the requisite resources that would make life more meaningful and enjoyable.
He also announced that the association had acquired an office at Nyinahin to ensure effective interaction between the executives and the members and stressed that it was important for members to channel all their grievances through the office for immediate solution.
Mr Atia said to ease the problem of travelling long distances to the district office, the executive had zoned the district into seven, where monthly meetings will be held.
He mentioned Mpasatia, Bayerebon, Tano-Dumase, Atuntuma, Kotokuom and Nyinahin as the communities for the meetings.
The District Chief Executive , Ms Theresa Adomako Tawiah, pledged government’s support for the members.
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