The Bawumia-led Economic Management Team has been urged by the Minority in Parliament to direct the Finance Minister to release and transfer all outstanding payments to the National Health Insurance Fund.

The minority claims that this is to keep the plan from collapsing from a lack of funding.

The Finance Minister has also been urged by the caucus to strictly abide by the National Health Insurance Act’s (Act 852) requirements.

They contend that the NHIS’s very survival is in jeopardy because of the scheme’s neglect, which has put it in a precarious financial situation.

The Minority, therefore, calls on the Bawumia-led Economic Management Team to direct the Minister responsible for Finance to release and transfer all outstanding payments to the National Health Insurance Fund by close of the week to prevent the scheme from being imperiled due to lack of funds, according to a statement released on May 24 by Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, Ranking Member on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health.

“Furthermore, we urge the Minister responsible for Finance to fully comply with the provisions of the National Health Insurance Act (Act 852), as non-compliance has clear consequences outlined in the Act.”

Since the NHIA hasn’t gotten any releases from the Ministry of Finance this year, Mr. Akandoh emphasized that the organization is in bankruptcy. Furthermore, the National Health Insurance Fund has less than GHS1.0 million, according to their checks at the Bank of Ghana.

He conveyed the indignation of the minority over the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia-led administration’s flagrant indifference to the National Health Insurance Scheme’s sustenance, which has led to the scheme’s present financial ruin.

“This gross and wanton neglect has driven the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) into a precarious financial state of comatose requiring intensive care services to save it from impending and inevitable collapse.

“In fact, the NHIA is bankrupt because it has not received any releases from the Ministry of Finance this year. In addition, our checks at the Bank of Ghana show that the National Health Insurance Fund has less than GHS1.0 million. This a fund that is bankrupt, to say the least.”