From 2024, mental health will be covered by the NHIS - Akufo-Addo

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

According to President Nana Akufo-Addo, "mental healthcare will be added to the benefits package on the National Health Insurance Scheme" starting in 2019.

At a meeting with doctors and surgeons in Accra, the president stated, "We recognize, however, that the availability of specialists to serve in all hospitals in the country is the key to achieving the target of universal health coverage."

"It's time we start raising our goals," he declared.

The president stated, "Ghana can achieve these targets, which are being achieved by the developed world, where doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals migrate to."

He called on the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Medical and Dental Council, the Ghana Health Service, and the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons to "work together to ensure that we also achieve this target."