FACT CHECK MAHAMA SONA

1. SONA 2016: 2015 saw an active NHIS membership of 11.2 million (41% of the population). Outpatient Utilisation of the National Health Insurance Scheme rose to 29.6million in 2014 from 597,000 in 2005

 

BUT SONA 2015: Outpatient utilization of the National Health Insurance Scheme went up to twenty- seven million, four hundred thousand (27.4 million) in 2014.

 

The president contradicted himself stating two different figures on Outpatient Utilisation of NHIS from the same year. How is it possible in 2014 to have in one breath 29.6 million people utilizing NHIS and then later claim that for that same year  27.4 million utilized the scheme.

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1. SONA 2016: It is for this core reason that over the past few years we have invested over US$2billion in health infrastructure, equipment and human resource. We project to add 6,000 more beds to Ghana’s existing stock by the end of 2018 when the programme is completed.

BUT GREEN BOOK: In the last few years, about US$2 billion has been invested in the provision of modern hospitals and the upgrading of facilities to ensure quality healthcare delivery.

There are currently two Teaching Hospital projects, three Institutional Hospitals, four Regional Hospitals, 14 District Hospitals, dozens of polyclinics, scores of health centres and hundreds of CHPS compounds at various stages of construction. When completed, these projects will collectively deliver 6,000 new hospital beds to facilitate access to improved health care by 2017.

2015 sona, There are currently several major hospital projects under construction, which when completed will collectively deliver approximately six thousand (6,000) new hospital beds to facilitate access to improved health care by 2017.

Which year is the correct year for completion, 2017 or 2018?

Far from the work progressing on the 60-bed district hospital in Salaga, as the President claimed, those who live in that community describe the site as “fenced, locked and abandoned”.

WE CHECKED EARLY ON …..

FACT CHECK AKUFFO ADDO

1. Has the President no evidence of the large number of teacher and nursing trainees who, 3 years and more after completion of their training, are virtually all sitting at home without being afforded the opportunity to offer the critical services for which they have been trained?

1. But Following a 14^TH January, 2016 release from the health ministry clearing these nurses for employment we can confirm that contrary to what the NPP leader said, our checks with the Ghana registered nurses association shows that the , 97 Staff Nurses, 31 Staff Midwives, 2,333 Enrolled Nurses, 599 Community Health Nurses and 234 Allied Health Professionals have been employed.

1. What about the children of Kperisi primary in the Upper West region who have no desks or chairs, so lie on the floor for their lessons to the detriment of their health?

1. They got furniture this morning…..