Ghanaians have been advised by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s campaign team to resist the NDC’s attempts to trick them into supporting the opposition party in the general elections of 2024.
This appeal is in response to recent remarks made by John Mahama, who asserted that the National Health Insurance and Free SHS programs were implemented by the NDC.
The campaign’s Director of Communications, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, responded to these allegations on a social media program called “The Next Chapter,” which was organized by the campaign. He said that the NDC had made similar accusations during the 2008 election in an attempt to undermine the social reforms that the John Kufuor administration had put in place.
Contrary to Mahama’s assertions that the NDC piloted the concept in Damongo and Nkoranza, Aboagye said that previous president John Agyekum Kufuor was the one who actually implemented the National Health Insurance concept.
He highlighted that the Rawlings administration’s replacement of a free healthcare policy with a “cash and carry” system is what gave rise to the idea of a health insurance policy in Ghana. Due to the shortcomings of this system, the Catholic Church implemented a health insurance program in Nkoranza and Damongo with financial support from the local community and a Dutch NGO.
“It is never true that the NHIS was piloted by the NDC in Nkoranza and Damongo. It was the Catholic Church in collaboration with the community supported by a non-governmental organization, to finance it.” Dennis Aboagye Miracles claimed.
He clarified that around 47 additional villages implemented their own versions of the National Health Insurance Scheme as a result of the Nkoranza scheme’s success. Due to this, the government implemented mutual district health plans in 2003, enabling citizens to receive medical treatment within their designated districts.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
