World Bank grants $27.7m concessionary funding to NHIS
The World Bank has provided the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) with $27.7 million concessionary funding to improve services, especially to the poor and vulnerable.
The funding will enable the scheme to increase its population coverage, register more poor and vulnerable people, and ensure the prompt processing and payment of claims for primary health care (PHC) providers.
The PHCs comprise the community-based health planning services (CHPS) compounds, health centres and maternity homes under the Primary Health Care Improvement.
Dubbed Programme for Results (PforR), the amount was provided by the World Bank with some support from the other donors under the umbrella funding group called Global Financing Facility.
A health economist with the World Bank, Enoch Oti Agy...
