NHIS Membership Increases Through 2025 Damba Festival Celebrations | 9/19/2025

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Northern Regional office took advantage of the 2025 Damba festival celebrations and recorded nearly sixteen thousand (16000) new enrolments and expired membership renewals, across the Dagbon and Nanung traditional areas.

A special taskforce led by the Acting Regional Director, Mr. Alhassan Abdulai joined forces with the Dagbon Traditional Council and generated a total of fifteen thousand eight hundred and twenty seven (15827) increment and membership renewals of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

The districts frontline teams documented two thousand three hundred and fifty five (2355) fresh members and thirteen thousand four hundred and seventy two (13472) renewals. They stationed at the Gbewaa Palace in Yendi, Gnani, Lamashiegu, Kanvili, Gushiegu, Pishigu, Yooyili, Bimbila and Wulensi chiefs palaces among others.

The teams educated people on the Scheme’s Benefit Package, MyNHIS App and Mobile Renewal platform practice, and how to merge the NHIS and Ghana cards. Mr. Alhassan Abdulai highly praised the remarkable achievement and encouraged the district management teams to sustain the momentum and ultimately attain their annual membership increment targets at the end of 2025.

 

Source: Andrew A. Awonnore,

Acting Regional PR Manager