About 6.2 million children between the ages of six to 14 are to be registered on to the Ghana Card from October this year to March, 2025 as part of efforts to get all Ghanaians onto the national identification database.
It is a collaboration between the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) and the National Identification Authority (NIA) to ensure that the card becomes an all-inclusive one for accessing services including healthcare.
The Deputy Director of Operations, NIA, Mr Alfred Gazari, announced this in Accra yesterday during a stakeholder engagement on Ghana Card registration for the aforementioned age group.
He said a minimum of 2,850,000 Ghanaians of the said age were expected to be registered in five months in the first phase of the exercise to be conducted in 170 Operational Districts where NHIA has district offices. "The main strategy is to use the schools, children's homes, and other facilities where children are housed as registration centres, including NHIA offices," he said.