Akufo-Addo Offers Free Healthcare & Free Education To Every Child Under 18

The 2012 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says in addition to every child under the age of 18 gaining access to free quality education, his administration will offer all children free access to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), when the NPP is voted into office in the December polls.In ensuring that every child has free access to the NHIS, Nana Addo explained that, parents will no longer have to be subscribers to the NHIS for their children to benefit, adding that “millions more of children will be covered by free healthcare.”The NPP Presidential Candidate made this known on Wednesday, when he delivered a speech on the topic “Saving our Health Service, Keeping our People Healthy”, at the Sunyani Nurses Training College, at which he comprehensively outlined his health policy.According to Nana Akufo-Addo, the NPP believes that “free quality education up to secondary level and affordable healthcare are essential for the healthy, educated workforce we need to transform the economy, create wealth and enhance the welfare and wellbeing of every Ghanaian.”Nana Addo explained that the wealth of the nation depends on the health of its people, and to “transform Ghana, we have to be healthy, and our government has a duty to ensure that the most vulnerable have access to quality healthcare.”Mindful, however, of NDC propaganda and distortions, particularly on his free SHS policy, and the anticipated NDC propaganda on his free NHIS for all children policy, Nana Akufo-Addo maintained that “the good people of this country know that this is something we should do, we can do, and we will do.”The NPP flagbearer recalled how NDC MPs, including now President John Mahama, walked out of parliament and boycotted its proceedings when the law to bring the NHIS into fruition was being laid on the floor of the House, because of their opposition to its passage.“But, when the programme was successful, they claimed falsely it was their idea and that they had a pilot scheme at Nkoranza.