The Efutu Senya Branch of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has intensified its public education in five selected communities in the Ewutu-Senya District of the Central Region. The Communities include Ewutu-Bawjiase, Ewutu Ofankor, Kasoa New Market Area, Kasoa Old Market and Kasoa CP Area. The week-long programme is aimed at encouraging people living in the communities, to register with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Mr. Josiah Doam Kittoe (Jnr), Manager of the Ewutu Senya Branch of the NHIA, told GNA that the programme was also to enhance “the special mass registration exercise” planned by the NHIA to register the people, including traders, farmers and other workers in Ewutu-Bawjiase, Ewutu-Ofankor and Kasoa. He said that the special mass registration, which took off in the Greater Accra Region recently, was initiated by the Governing Council of the NHIA in Accra to assist Municipal, Metropolitan and District NHIS to register more clients. Mr. Kittoe gave the assurance that the NHIS was still a viable health policy that could guarantee affordable health care to Ghanaians. He appealed to chiefs, Assembly Members, Area Council Executives and religious heads to help in educating the people on the need to register for the NHIS. Mr. Joseph Owusu-Kwarteng, the Public Relations Officer of the Ewutu Senya Branch of the NHIA, reminded the public that the processing fee and the premium charged by the Scheme were not changed. He said that children below 18 years and persons above 70 years as well as Social Security and National Insurance Trust contributors would pay a processing fee of GHc4 for registration. Mr. Owusu-Kwarteng said prospective clients, who did not fall within the category of people mentioned, would each pay GHC19 out of which GHC4 would be used as processing fee and GHC15 as premium for a year. Source: GNA