The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says it will start payment of claims submitted by service providers covering the period of March this year.

This follows the release of money by the Finance Ministry to the scheme for the payment of some debt owed.

Head of Communication at the NHIA, Selorm Adornu said “some funds have been made available and we are clearing a lot of our debts, we have cleared the whole of February, we are clearing March from next week and we will clear April as the weeks go by”.

The Minority yesterday accused government of deliberate ploy to collapse the scheme initiated by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration.

Remittance to the scheme from the consolidated fund, which is statutory, is in arrears to the tune of Ȼ456 million.

 But head of Selorm Adornu has denied these assertions.

“Financial sustainability of the scheme is not anybody’s making, what it means is that more people have come unto the scheme cost of providing medical care has increased but the money which comes to the NHIA from the people of Ghana has remained relatively same”.

He said the Authority is devising ways to sustain the scheme.