Government says plans are far advanced to add kidney disease dialysis permanently to ailments covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme.CEO of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr.
Da-Costa Aboagye says the board will be meeting next month to bring finality to the decision.The NHIA in June started absorbing the cost of dialysis for all patients at varying amounts, with the vulnerable group receiving free eight sessions per month.
While others had their sessions subsidized.The Government's free dialysis program which started four months ago is scheduled to end in two months.
Since the announcement of the initiative, calls had emerged questioning the way forward after the six months duration elapses.This concern is coupled with a myriad of challenges that initially confronted the program, resulting in a number of agitations from the renal disease patients.But the CEO of the authority has allayed all concerns, assuring of plans to sustain the initiative.He said: "The team has looked at the data, and we now know that by the data, we can support the dialysis patients to the extent that they are even not able to use the amount of money we've been giving them.