{"id":235401,"date":"2026-06-05T05:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ssnit-launches-healthcare-scheme-for-members\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:25:11","slug":"ghana-ssnit-launches-healthcare-scheme-for-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ssnit-launches-healthcare-scheme-for-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: SSNIT Launches Healthcare Scheme for Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has launched a healthcare scheme aimed at providing free medical healthcare to pensioners under the SSNIT pension scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Dubbed the SSNIT Telehealth Service, the initiative will enable pensioners to access healthcare services from the comfort of their homes, reducing the need for frequent hospital visits and long-distance travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The service, introduced in partnership with the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) and the Trust&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606040676.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has launched a healthcare scheme aimed at providing free medical healthcare to pensioners under the SSNIT pension scheme. Dubbed the SSNIT Telehealth Service, the initiative will enable pensioners to access healthcare services from the comfort of their homes, reducing the need for frequent hospital visits and long-distance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4508,4509,12370,5957,4326,257,11079,254,6726],"class_list":["post-235401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-healthcare","tag-launches","tag-members","tag-news","tag-scheme","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ssnit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}