Techiman — The Techiman Office of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has registered 164,093 subscribers onto the scheme from January to the first half of November this year.
It included 68,847 males and 84,659 females with 245,927 active memberships out of the figure.
Mr. Seth Amponsah, the Municipal Management and Information Officer, told the Ghanaian Times yesterday at Techiman, the Bono East Regional capital, that it was their vision to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.
According to Mr Amponsah, the theme for this year’s celebration “expanding access to health care through the linkage to the Ghana card” was to remind the public on merging their NHIS and Ghana cards.
He noted that a week is set aside every November to create awareness about the activities of the scheme and the numerous benefits it offered, “interact with our members and take our services…