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Qualitative healthcare delivery achievable if … Expert

By Kemi Olatunde
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Qualitative health system is possible  if government at all levels  focus on programmes aimed at addressing the weakness in the sector and also engage partners’ activities among other things.

This was the submission of the National Programme Manager, Saving One Million Lives Programme for Result (SOML P for R), Dr. Ibrahim Kana, while delivering his welcome address during a two- day  retreat in Akure.

He stated that  it is important that the different structures in the states that is, Ministry of Health, Primary Health Care Development Board, Hospitals Management Board and other MDAs work together to achieve the desired result.

Speaking further, he noted that the state should have a work plan with focus on the analysis of the Primary Health Care(PHC) situation adding  that it should also give priority to the supervision of the various facilities.

Kana added that “it should quickly improve coverage of key interventions,  make PHCs functional, that is PHC revitalisation including human resources, operationalise PHC under one roof,  increase uptake of modern contraceptive and strengthen routine immunisation,” so as to help the state boost its health sector.

He described SOML Programme for Result as an approach to structure the flow of resources to pay for result, saying “it is a Federal Government intervention aimed at improving Maternal and Child health. It is about restructuring for flow of resources to states.

“It is aimed at delivering policy impact, evidence based and  cost effective interventions to achieve wider coverage of the interventions that currently suffer from poor access and utilisation.”

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Speaking earlier in his welcome address, Health Commissioner, Dr. Wahab Adegbenro described health as one of the fundamental metrics of human capital development which cuts across all landscapes of human development.

Listing maternal and child health as one of the commonly used health indicators that provide trails of evidence of effectiveness of governance and socio-economic development, he noted that Nigeria is the second worst nation in terms of rate of mortality and disability from maternal health service.

He hinted that SOML programme was introduced to prevent the ugly incidence in the country,  saying “the implementation of the programme kicked off in the state in April 2017. The state has so far received the sum of one million,  nine hundred and seventy two thousand US Dollars.”

The implementation of the programme according to him has made stakeholders realise that improvement in the health sector requires team work.

Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs,  Mrs.  Lola Fagbemi who hinted that she had been promoting health care programmes  assured SOML of her commitment to funding the state Primary Health Care and called on all   to put in more effort in saving the lives of the people.

Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget,   Mr. Emmanuel Igbasan, while lamenting the number of people who die of malaria, stated that  adequate provision had been made for quality and  accessible health care.

Also speaking, the state Finance Commissioner, Mr Wale Akinterinwa, while congratulating the organisers of the event and other partners for their interventions in improving the health system of the state,  assured SOML of better performance in the state.

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In her goodwill message, UNICEF representative, Dr. Adebola Hassan noted that SOML P for R put all on the pedestral for better performance. He advised  the state to look inward in order to accelerate action so as to guarantee an improved result.

However, he admonished the gathering to learn to do things differently, “so as to ensure that  indicator improves in the area of low performance.”

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