Nii Armah Ashitey, the Greater Accra Regional Minster, has paid GHc8, 000 for 500 residents in the Klottey Korle Constituency in Accra to be registered under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The exercise is to create awareness about the importance of registering with the scheme. Addressing the recipients Nii Ashitey said the exercise was in response to complaints he had received from residents about their inability to afford hospital bills. He cautioned them to be careful about their lifestyles and urged them to desist from activities that would jeopardise their health, since the country needed all of them alive. Nii Ashitey said the exercise was the first in a series of health activities for the development of the constituency. He said: “We have put in place a series of programmes for the year relating to health in the constituency and we hope that they will yield fruitful results.” Mr Lawrence Amartey, Greater Accra Regional Manager of NHIS, assured recipients that their cards would be ready in a month’s time and urged them not to hesitate to complain if they were given the cards at the due time. Source: GNA