Mr George Hikah Benson, Upper West Regional Minister has appealed to chiefs in the region to sensitise people in their traditional areas who have not registered under the National Health Insurance Scheme to do so without delay. He said after more than two years of operation of the scheme in the region, people have accepted the scheme as figures indicated continue to increase in the number of newly registered members. The regional minister said this when he addressed the Daffiama Naa, Na Dekumwin Domale and his people at Daffiama in the Nadowli District as part of his courtesy calls on chiefs in the region. The Daffiama Naa in an address read on his behalf called on the government to tar the Sombo/Daffiama road as indicated in the national budget. The minister had earlier paid a similar courtesy call on the Kaleo Naa, Banamini Sandu, paramount chief of the Kaleo Traditional Area at Kaleo. He assured the minister of the full cooperation of chiefs in the traditional to administer the region in the common interest of the people of the region.Source: GNA