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The Managing Director of the Donkorkrom Presbyterian Hospital has lamented the persistent delays in the payment of claims owed them by the National Health Insurance Authority.

According to Mr. Kwaku Fianko Gyan, in the case of the Donkorkrom Prebyterian Hospital, the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has, for the last 8 months, been unable to pay claims submitted to them for persons who accessed healthcare at the facility using the National Health Insurance Scheme.

The MD of the Donkorkrom Hospital indicated that, “as we speak we have submitted all our claims till September, but, the NHIA has reimbursed this facility only for January 2016.”

Mr. Kwaku Fianko Gyan made this revelation on Wednesday, November 16, 2016, when the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, paid a visit to the hospital as part of his tour of the Afram Plains North constituency of the Eastern Region.

With the government of President John Dramani Mahama and his assigns vehemently denying suggestions that the National Health Insurance Scheme is facing a major crisis and on the verge of collapse, Mr. Kwaku Fianko Gyan, stated that “the Health Insurance has been a major challenge (across the country), and Donkorkorom is part.”

This situation, in the view Mr. Kwaku Fianko Gyan, means that “managing the facility has become extremely difficult. You know, working in this area, we have a lot of non-mechanised staff we have to pay. At the end of the month it is difficult. Your staff are looking up to you for their meagre salary.”