FEDERATION OF DISABLED TO REGISTER MEMBERS FOR NHIS (PAGE 35, OCT 16, 2010)

From George Ernest Asare, Nyinahin

THE Atwima Mponua District of the Ghana Federation of the Disabled have pledged to support its members who have financial problems  to enable them register to join the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) .
The gesture, according to the Federation, was to  make quality healthcare readily accessible to its members to enable them undertake productive ventures, thereby reducing the poverty rate among them.
The District Chairman of the Federation, 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 for them to source for quality healthcare and therefore  assured of the executives’ preparedness to register some of their members who were financially handicapped .
He explained that each year, the association will register 20 of its 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.
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  for them.
He pointed out that the association would provide the needed support to members eager to learn vocational skills, and therefore encouraged them to do so.
He also announced that the association had acquired an office at Nyinahin  to enhance effective interaction between the executives and its members.
He said it was therefore important  for the 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 executives had zoned the district into seven,where monthly meetings would be held.
He mentioned Mpasatia, Bayerebon, Tano-dumasi, Atuntuma, Kotokuom and Nyinahin as the communities where  monthly meetings would be held .
He urged members to attend the monthly meetings in their numbers to enable them initiate policies and programmes that would impact positively on the welfare of the members.