Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, announced that the government intends to introduce free dialysis to cut the struggles of people suffering from kidney-related diseases. "Nananom, we have improved the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS.
We have invested a lot of money into the scheme to ensure that a lot of illness such as childhood cancers can be covered by the scheme.
Through the NHIS, children with the sickle cell disease can now access the medcation, Hydroxyurea for free.
Kidney dialysis is very expensive and patients cannot afford.