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Call your Upper East NHIA Director to order – Ghana Physician Assistants Association to NHIA

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The Ghana Physician Assistants Association (GPAA) Chapter of the Upper East Region is calling on the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to sanction its Upper East Regional Director, Sebastian Alagpulinsa for publicly bringing their professional license into disrepute.

According to the Association, the office of the Upper East Regional NHIS on May 29th wrote a letter to all private health centers in the region instructing them to permanently engage the services of medical officers in order “to qualify them operate as clinics at the B2 level of the NHIA facility categorization”.

Upper East Regional Chairman of GPAA- Mr. Peter Ayamba

But the Upper East Regional Chairman of GPAA Mr. Peter Ayamba in a press statement copied to A1 NEWS indicated that, such directive was in contradiction to a unanimous agreement between the NHIA and the GPAA during a stakeholders meeting held on February 18, 2020.

Mr. Ayamba, expressed regret at the actions taken in the recent letter written by the regional director of NHIS Mr. Sabastian Alagpulinsa to private health care providers in the region.

He contends that, the action of Regional Director of the NHIA Mr. Sabastian Alagpulinsa was an affront to their profession and demanded an unqualified apology from him and a subsequent withdrawal of his letter.

“We earlier on engaged the NHIA and other stakeholders which included the Medical and Dental Council, Health Facilities Regulatory Agency (HeFRA) and the Ministry of Health. So it was at that engagement that, the National Health Insurance Authority explained that, the directive was not to ask us to get a medical officer as the basis for the private health facility to be a clinic or health center.

But the meeting was to ensure that, there was a supervisory framework for the private health facility. So, the current letter from the region came to us as a surprise because we are engaging at a higher level. And to have this directive, it meant that it was not acted in good faith, unfortunate, a discriminatory effort to the GPAA and we think that the national office of the NHIA needs to clarify it”.

Upper East Regional Director of the NHIS-Mr. Sabastian Alagpulinsa

To his dismay, the Upper East Regional Director of the NHIA, Sabastian Alagpulinsa  said, the  letter was to remind the private health centers of a date for the  implementation of a new policy introduced by the  National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA).

“After serving them the letter, some facilities also called me that they had received another letter from the authority and the date has been extended to 30th September. So when I sought clarification from my superiors, I was told they [NHIA] have decided to shift the date to 30th September because of the Covid-19 so as to enable them [private facilities] prepare themselves and get medical doctors recruited into their facilities. So I further communicated back to them”.

But Mr. Ayamba maintained that, Mr. Alagpulinsa’s letter was needless since there was an ongoing deliberations between the GPAA and the NHIA.

Source:| A1Radioonline.com|101.1MHZ|Joshua Asaah|Ghana

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