PESHWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved the revamping and reconstitution of the whole health sector to effectively address the problems of preventive and curative diseases, to reach each and every segment of society, where salaries and benefits are based on performance computable with the market.
The package of these comprehensive reforms is based on the recommendations of the Working Group on Health Sector Reforms recently notified which constantly worked to take stake of the situation particularly in view of the fact that the Health profile of Pakistan generally and KP in particular was the lowest in the world.
The hospitals were dysfunctional; both primary and preventive health cares cannot address the need of the hour and both communicable and non-communicable diseases are on the increase. While the public will start feeling the benefits of these reforms within two months, the researchers will note the results in the long run because it will effectively contribute to the health of the people at large in the province.
The reform package therefore specifically addresses the issues of increasing maternal mortality ratio, infant mortality, child mortality, maternal mortality, malnutrition and thus the MCH. While on the one hand the reforms focuses over autonomy of tertiary hospitals, introduction and constitution of Management and Health Coordination Boards at the district level and the decentralisation of authority, it has equally addressed the lack of coordination among different tiers of the Health Department so that optimum performance is achieved at each and every level.
In specific terms the reforms included the reconstitution and revamping of KP Health Foundation where non-official members will be increased, the KP Health Regulatory Authority, Medical Health Institutions Law, Social Health Protection Initiative, the establishment of Drug and Food Regulation Authority and Health Sector Strategy.
With regard to the establishment of District Health Management Boards, start will be taken from the District Health Coordination Boards by the upcoming September 30 while its TORs finalized by the 30th of this month. The reforms are focused over essential health services and primary health care, its outreach and particularly the poor and those at the far flung and backward areas thus the RHCs (Rural Health Centres) and BHUs (Basic Health Units) as well as the rural dispensaries which will be brought under the BHUs, a major increase in the EPI and integration of all preventive health programmes.
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The package of these comprehensive reforms is based on the recommendations of the Working Group on Health Sector Reforms recently notified which constantly worked to take stake of the situation particularly in view of the fact that the Health profile of Pakistan generally and KP in particular was the lowest in the world.
The hospitals were dysfunctional; both primary and preventive health cares cannot address the need of the hour and both communicable and non-communicable diseases are on the increase. While the public will start feeling the benefits of these reforms within two months, the researchers will note the results in the long run because it will effectively contribute to the health of the people at large in the province.
The reform package therefore specifically addresses the issues of increasing maternal mortality ratio, infant mortality, child mortality, maternal mortality, malnutrition and thus the MCH. While on the one hand the reforms focuses over autonomy of tertiary hospitals, introduction and constitution of Management and Health Coordination Boards at the district level and the decentralisation of authority, it has equally addressed the lack of coordination among different tiers of the Health Department so that optimum performance is achieved at each and every level.
In specific terms the reforms included the reconstitution and revamping of KP Health Foundation where non-official members will be increased, the KP Health Regulatory Authority, Medical Health Institutions Law, Social Health Protection Initiative, the establishment of Drug and Food Regulation Authority and Health Sector Strategy.
With regard to the establishment of District Health Management Boards, start will be taken from the District Health Coordination Boards by the upcoming September 30 while its TORs finalized by the 30th of this month. The reforms are focused over essential health services and primary health care, its outreach and particularly the poor and those at the far flung and backward areas thus the RHCs (Rural Health Centres) and BHUs (Basic Health Units) as well as the rural dispensaries which will be brought under the BHUs, a major increase in the EPI and integration of all preventive health programmes.
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-n...2013/kpk-govt-approves-plan-for-better-health
