The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) and management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are to sign an agreement to train graduate students of the School of Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, to serve as ambassadors of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). 

The programme is to equip them with comprehensive knowledge on the NHIS modus operandi and its operational ethics.

In the end, the graduates will be well equipped as they leave school to work in the health industry and will play a pivotal and effective role in championing the scheme’s cause.

This initiative is to support the 'New NHIS' where the payment of claims is not only the preserve of the NHIA and its governing board, but investing in the entire health ecosystem to ensure value for money. 

For this purpose, the NHIA on August 1, 2023, delivered a newly branded 33 seater coastal bus to the KNUST School of Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences.

Chief Executive Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye at the handover ceremony said the NHIA would make it possible for graduate students of the KNUST School of Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, to get acquainted with the NHIS operations and claims management. 

"What we are trying to do is to revise access to healthcare services and we are the first entity to partner KNUST to resurrect the School of Medical Sciences," Dr Okoe-Boye said.

| The NHIA CEO Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye shaking hands with KNUST's Vice Chancellor, Professor Rita Akosua Dickson 

The KNUST Vice Chancellor, Professor Rita Akosua Dickson, said her administration believed absolutely in constructive partnership including training healthcare practitioners. 

She stressed, "We believe in hands-on training to our students and this partnership you have demonstrated with so much love will help us to train our students to serve as Health Ambassadors.

"We can assure you that the partnership will inure to the benefit of humanity which is the mandate of the university with a global outlook. All resources will be put to good use."