{"id":1215,"date":"2010-08-24T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2010-08-24T11:56:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T15:56:02","slug":"national-drug-plan-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/national-drug-plan-delayed","title":{"rendered":"Phase Two of National Drug Plan Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1216\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"prescription-drug-plan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/prescription-drug-plan1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/>The second stream of the government\u2019s  National Chronic Disease Prescription Drug Plan (NPDP) will not come on  stream until later this year, according to Health Minister Dr. Hubert  Minnis.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Dr. Minnis, who spoke with the Bahama Journal,  recently said that officials are still testing the first phase of the  plan which 70,000 persons have already registered for.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the plan, which runs under the National  Insurance Board (NIB), caters to NIB pensioners, invalids, residents of  65 and children under the age of 18 or up to 25 if full time students.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Minnis said so far the plan is working well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far it is doing what it is supposed to do, but we  still are keeping a close eye on its progress,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have come  across some minor challenges but right now we are focusing on perfecting  the plan before the next phase is introduced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, Phase 2 of the project is  expected to cover employed and self-employed persons, persons in  government institutions, voluntarily insured contributors and other  indigent persons.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second stream of the government\u2019s National Chronic Disease Prescription Drug Plan (NPDP) will not come on stream until later this year, according to Health Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-health","tag-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}