The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Membership card is issued to many Ghanaians to take along when visiting the health centre for free health care. Despite the fact that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is helps you access free healthcare, you will have to renew it at its due time.
It would be a disgrace to visit a health facility with your NHIS Membership card in Ghana and be told — your health insurance card has expired. When this happens, the health condition of the patient is at risk so money has to be paid physically for Doctors and Nurses at duty to provide healthcare to the person sicked.
Ghana under the administration of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia with the implementation of Digitalization in every sector, brought the digital payment channel for Ghanaians to be able to pay for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) using their mobile phones and Mobile Money.
Despite using your mobile phone to pay for your your NHIS Card in Ghana, you can also check for your NHIS Card validity via your mobile phone at ease.
On Latest Ghana, I would like to outline to you some of the simple steps you should follow to check your NHIS Membership validity from the comfort of your room for 2021.
How To Check Your NHIS Membership Validity
Technology has made things so easier to mankind and there’s no need to go out of your room and be walking under the Sun — just to renew your National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card as a Ghanaian.
Here is the steps you should follow to check your NHIS membership validity in Ghana.
- On your mobile phone, dial the NHIS Shortcode — *929#. (This NHIS short code is available to all networks that are operating in Ghana)
- Choose the option 1 — Check Policy Validity
- Select the option 1 — NHIS Card
- Enter your NHIS Membership Card Number
- You’re done. Your NHIS validity will be displayed on your screen for you.
Now, if you are looking for how to renew your NHIS card, you can check the easy to follow guide here. This article guide is written for you about how to renew your NHIS membership card — because after checking your NHIS validity, you would have to renew should it expires.
If you are a Vodafone Ghana, MTN Ghana, Glo Ghana, AirtelTigo Ghana or Expresso mobile network subscriber in Ghana, you can all use this simple steps above here.
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