News:
November 14, 2011
A fully equipped CHIPS compound with a nurse’s quarters has been inaugurated at the Banda Boase-Beina, a farming community in the Tain District in the Brong Ahafo Region.
The facility, which was built at a total cost of GHS 46,000, was financed by the Member of Parliament (MP) of Tain Constituency, Mr Ahmed Ibrahim, through his share of the National Health Insurance Fund for Members of Parliament.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Mr Ahmed Ibrahim said he decided to provide the people of Banda Boase- Beima and its environs with the facility because of the absence of a health facility in the area.
He said the facility should end the long distance people had to travel to assess health care at Nsakaw, the Tain District capital.
Mr Ibrahim urged the people to patronize the facility since that was the only way it could be upgraded into a higher facility to cater for their health needs.
The Brong Ahafo Regional Manager of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Foster Agyei Korang, said the NHIA had paid over GHS 33 million as claims to serve providers in the region.
He debunked the notion that the National Health Insurance Scheme was collapsing, considering the prompt payment of claims by the Authority.
The District Chief Executive for Tain, Mr Jones Samuel Tawiah, urged the people to keep faith with the government as it worked hard to fulfill its promises to the people.
He said since the coming into office of the government in 2009, the Tain District had enjoyed a lot of developmental projects ranging from schools, bridges and roads among others, which impacted positively on the lives of the people.