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The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has begun implementing the free dialysis policy introduced by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA).
This happened after the Management of KATH received an official letter from the National Health Insurance Authority to roll out the policy.
“Even though the policy was announced to take effect on June 1, we had to still charge patients as we were yet to receive any official document to begin the free services. Now that the official letter is in, we have to commence.
“Per the letter, we will reimburse those who have paid before the formal notification of the package to the hospital”, Dr Yaw Opare Larbi, Deputy Medical Director at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, stated.
The intervention is to bring relief to patients who have had to cough up at least 500 cedis per session.
“This is a relief for us because it’s sometimes difficult to raise money continuously for dialysis. We only hope this intervention goes beyond the 6-month mark,” 61-year-old Enoch Osei pleaded.
Kidney patients below 18 and 60 and above will enjoy 8 sessions in a month for free, while those within the age bracket of 19 and 59 benefit from only 2 sessions.
The Ashanti Regional Health Director, Dr Emmanuel Tinkorang, however, wants the government to commit more funds to the health infrastructure for Ghana to also start organ transplants.
Dr Emmanuel Tinkorang
“As a nation, we should prepare to move on to the next step, which is a kidney transplant. We are working towards a policy on organ transplants. We have to get an infrastructure and build capacity to effectively do organ transplants”.
