ALL INMATES, OFFICIALS OF KSI PRISONS REGISTERED WITH NHIS

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Nana Oye Lithur inspecting a guard of honour before the event


The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has started the registration of all one thousand, 736 inmates of the Kumasi Central and Female Prisons in the Ashanti region under the second phase of its project to register all prison inmates in Ghana. 

Under the project, staff of the Ghana Prisons Service are also to be registered and issued with their biometric cards to enable them to access healthcare either within or outside the prisons.

 At the launch of the project in Kumasi, the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, disclosed that already, about six thousand biometric NHIS Cards have been issued to both prison inmates with a similar number of Ghanaian citizens aged from 65 years also having been registered free of charge under the NHIS. 

Nana Oye Lithur explained that the project is part of the government’s comprehensive programme of social interventions to address the health needs of the vulnerable like people with physical and mental disability, as well as prison inmates.

 The Minister appealed to all Ghanaians to support the ‘Efiase Project’ initiated by the Prisons Council so as to provide the infrastructural, accommodation, training and feeding needs of both prison officials and inmates. 

She said the prisons should not make inmates worse off but provide a congenial environment for the prisoners and officials to live comfortably. 

The Director of Membership and Regional Operations of the National Health Insurance Authority, Ben Kusi disclosed that the Infirmary at the Kumasi Prisons will soon be accredited by the NHIA. 

This will enable the facility also benefit from improved human resource, logistics and medical care to provide the needed care to both the inmates and the prison staff.

 Mr. Kusi disclosed that last year alone, about one point-four million marginalized Ghanaians including those in the leprosarium, prisons and mental homes were registered free of charge with the Scheme.

 This, He noted, is part of the mandate of the NHIA as provided for in the law that established the Scheme. 

Present at the programme were the Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service, Madam Matilda Baffuor-Asare and the Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Kojo Bonsu.

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