This is to ensure that people living at those places are enrolled unto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to enable such people to also benefit from quality health care.The directive is part of series of measures being taken in the region to raise the percentage of the Eastern Regional population that have enrolled unto the NHIS.

This was disclosed to the media by the Eastern Regional Director of the NHIA, Mr Theophilus  Owusu-Ansah, after a one hour float by the staff of the Authority through the principal  streets of Koforidua.It was part of activities to mark the 15th anniversary of the  NHIA and the regional launching of the mobile phone renewal of the  annual registration of the NHIS  members in the Eastern Region at Koforidua.

Mr Owusu-Ansah said though about 80 per cent of the population of the Eastern Region have registered with the NHIS, only 35 per cent of the population have active registration cards.He said one of the reasons for the low renewal of registration of the members of the scheme was identified as the long hours that people who want to renew their membership had to wait for that service.

Mr Owusu-Ansah said it was for that reason that the mobile phone renewal of registration was introduced to ensure that people could renew their member from the comfort of their homes and offices.

He said the mobile phone renewal of registration of the NHIS clients does not extend to pregnant women and paupers and people who want to register to be a member of the Scheme.