Koforidua, Aug. 6, GNA - The Eastern Region branch of the National Association of Lotto Agents and Writers is to establish a health insurance scheme for its members this year.

The Association would begin the scheme on a pilot basis in the New Juaben Municipality after which it would gradually be extended to all 15 Districts in the Region, Mr Michael Asiamah, Regional Chairman of the Association, said at a seminar on the scheme on Wednesday. Mr Asiamah called on all lotto agents and writers to join the association so that they could honour their tax obligation to the government.

Ms Dzifa Akoto of the Eastern Regional Secretariat of the Health Insurance Scheme said membership of the scheme would be voluntary and that nobody needed to coerce people to register with it.

She advised members of the Association not to associate any political party or government to their scheme, explaining that if that happened, the scheme was likely to collapse whenever that party or government lost power.