N/R: NHIS in limbo as major provider withdraws services
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA)’s major service provider in the Northern Region, Peekay Gombi Pharmaceuticals, has withdrawn its services with effect from November 1, 2016. This is because of the NHIA’s failure to pay claims submitted for 13 months of service delivery to NHIS subscribers in the Northern Region. Hundreds of NHIS subscribers in Tamale Metropolis who as usual queued at the Peekay Gombi Pharmaceuticals were on Monday November 1 turned away. The Chief Executive Officer of Peekay Gombi pharmaceutical, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdul Rauf Peekay Gombila, told Citi News the NHIA owed him Ghc2 million. “The total value is around two billion old currency and I cannot continue to service the NHIS subscribers.” “The NHIA owes me three months in 2015, and 10 months in 2016, and so I thought it wise that if I don’t stop the NHIS subscribers and continue to supply the drugs, I will have problem with the suppliers because there is no money to pay them.” ...
