{"id":987524033,"date":"2015-09-07T03:32:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T02:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/nhi-implementation-update-09-2015\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:07:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:07:17","slug":"nhi-implementation-update-09-2015","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/nhi-implementation-update-09-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"NHI implementation update -\/09\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal;text-indent: -0.5in;text-align: right\"><em>Source: GIZ<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal;text-indent: -0.5in\">\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal;text-indent: -0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">i.<span style=\"font-size: 7pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">The implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) was targeted nearly a year ago (November, 2014) with design features including draft Standard Operating Procedure in hand. However the lack of legal basis has led to delayed implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal;text-indent: -0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">ii.<span style=\"font-size: 7pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">An interim legal provision was made by establishing the Social Health Security Development Committee (SHSDC) under Development Board Act 1956 in February, 2015 with a mandate to implement health insurance in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal;text-indent: -0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">iii.<span style=\"font-size: 7pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">The board of SHSDC has seven members with Secretary of Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) as the chair. Other members are a representative from MoHP (Gazetted First Class), a representative from the Ministry of Finance (MOF) (Gazetted First Class), Director General of Department of Health Services (DOHS), two experts in health economics, medicine or health sector nominated by MOHP and executive director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal;text-indent: -0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">iv.<span style=\"font-size: 7pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">Training of the enrollment assistants in the initial implementation districts (Kailali, Baglung and Ilam) has been completed in July 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal;text-indent: -0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">v.<span style=\"font-size: 7pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">The budget speech of the \u00a0fiscal year 2015\/16 has allocated five million USD for the health insurance programme as well as \u00a0mentioned mid of October as the enrollment date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal;text-indent: -0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">vi.<span style=\"font-size: 7pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">Health facility readiness assessment to roll out the health insurance was done in envisioned health providers and referral centers of initial implementation districts in July, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal;text-indent: -0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">vii.<span style=\"font-size: 7pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #1f497d\">The SHSDC is currently working to endorse the SHSDC rule with a consent from MOF and on other preparatory works in coordination with development partners including GIZ Nepal and KOICA Nepal to start the implementation from November, 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #000000;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: GIZ i.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) was targeted nearly a year ago (November, 2014) with design features including draft Standard Operating Procedure in hand. However the lack of legal basis has led to delayed implementation. \u00a0 ii.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0An interim legal provision was made by establishing the Social Health Security Development Committee (SHSDC)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}