Cash & Carry Returns At Yendi Hospital

Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that the Yendi Hospital in the Northern Region is likely to start the deadly cash-and-carry system due to arrears owed by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA).

The facility has not been paid their NHIA arrears for the past one year, thereby, affecting health delivery in the hospital.

This has mounted pressure on the hospital since most of their clients who visit the hospital are health insurance card holders.

The hospital is virtually broke and cannot afford to purchase packs of gloves and health materials for effective health delivery at the facility.

The facility serves as the only referral point for the eastern corridor and its surrounding districts. The current water crisis in Yendi is also compelling the hospital to be buying about six tanks of water daily for their operations, thereby, putting pressure on their finances.

The Yendi Hospital Public Relations Officer (PRO), Alhassan Wemah, told DAILY GUIDE that the NHIA “owes the hospital for about a year now” without even a single part payment issued to them to run the operations of the hospital.

According to him, the facility will be forced to start a cash-and-carry system even though it is not permitted to attend to clients and take money as cash.

“Sometimes, we cannot even attend to our clients due to the pressure on us by the suppliers, the facility is totally broke, we can’t even buy gloves,” he revealed.

The PRO of the hospital appealed to government to intervene into the matter to enable the facility to settle their suppliers the money they owe them.

 FROM Eric Kombat, Yendi

 

 

 

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