Khartoum State intensifies concern with primary health care
13 December, 2012
Khartoum, (Sudanow Info.) – As part of its efforts to develop and upgrade the primary health care sector, Khartoum State has recently organized the Primary Health Care conference. The conference concluded its sessions at Coral Hotel here and issued its recommendations.
The conference recommended revision of patients referring system at all levels together with utilization of previous experiences and filling in the gaps in the service standards at the health centers.
The conference also called for running a dialogue among the various authorities of concern to unite the language regarding those standards and working out urgent preventive plans to completely cover the health centers with the two packages of pregnant women care and family planning and ophthalmological care.
The recommendations further included qualicomplete covering the health centers with the two packages of pregnant women care and famfying the pharmaceutical assistants and working out a program of action and a detailed plan to integrate the study programs and make the primary health care the basic axis for the provision of the health sedetailed plan to integrate the study programs and make trvices to guarantee maximum utilization of community participation.
The conferees also called for advocacy to the reform of the primary health care system and its requirements, urging the political and legislative leadership at the center and state levels to adopt the project and commit themselves to.
The conference, as well, called for revising the applications of the health ministry of the policy of the health zone and working to adjust the policy to ensure that the population would receive the packages of services from the health center at their holding areas and that the health center would open toward the surrounding community.
The recommendations stressed the importance of implementing a national comprehensive coverage plan to deliver the services for the uncovered population and complete the minimum packages of service at all the primary health care institutions via provision of comprehensive harmonious services by a team or a multi-task individual;ir holding areas and that the health cen and from a specific service provision point.
The conference called for revising the funding system to ensure continuation of the services at the basic primary health care units and improve them to guarantee the social health protection in addition to increasing the funds for the health care via the establishment of a unified fund to attract funds for the primary health care.
The recommendations urged the officials and specialists to utilize the experience of Gezira State in the exploitation of the available resources to boost the basic primary health care through specifying the course of the medical cadres and making the work in the provision of health care services an essential part of their occupational course in addition to linking the post to the work site.
The conference further urged the officials and specialists to commit themselves to the implementation of the state’s health map so that there would be a governing reference for the provision of the health care services.
Meanwhile, Khartoum State Wali (Governor) Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Khader affirmed that his stated has allotted 176 millid affirmed that his stated on SDGs to develop, rehabilitate and complete the health coverage in the state’s budget for 2012.
Addressing the Primary Health Care conference at Coral Hotel in Khartoum, the Wali reiterated that his state was working to implement the health zone system via linking each hospital with a number of health centers.
He further said that the treatment in 2013 would be through two systems, either the health insurance or the economic treatment, adding that the treatment at the emergency units would be free under all circumstances.
The Wali pointed to the efforts been exerted by the state to design a health insurance card for every citizen, noting that the state would pay for the citizen would fail to pay his subscription fees in the health insurance card.
Khartoum State’s Health Minister Prof. Mamoun Humaida, on his part, reiterated that his ministry was working to develop the concept of primary health care through inclusion of all the patients’ needs and by making the patient the focus of the health services.
Humaida further acknowledged that the concept of primary health care faced difficulties that created two levels of doctors, pointing out that there were doctors who favored working at the rural areas and others at the big hospitals despite the fact that 80% of the service is provided at the rural areas.
He reiterated the importance of the primary health care in early diagnosis of diseases and reduction of treatment cost, pointing out that 55% of the ministry’s budget (60 million SDGs) is allotted for the free treatment, namely the kidney dialysis.
The minister, meanwhile, called for changing the university syllabuses to go in line with the needs of the community, pointing out that the ministry has established partnerships with a number of universities to implement the health zone project via qualifying the medical cadres.
Dr. Ibrahim Abdul-Rahman, Director of the Primary Health Care Directorate at the ministry, on his part, called for working to disseminate the concept of primary health care in the community sectors, explaining the importance of the primary health care in reducing the treatment cost.
He said the number of the hospitals in the state amounted to 48 hospitals in 2012 in addition to 4 new emergency divisions, noting that, in domain of preventive services, 367639 children less than a year of age have been vaccinated by pentavalent and polio vaccines during 2010-2011.
Dr. Mahkoub Meki, a lecturer at Omdurman Islamic University, meanwhile, presented a paper to the conference titled “Why Primary Health Care”, explaining that the primary health care is a group of directive values for health development or a group of necessary principles for organizing the health services.
He called for the importance of continual training and directing of the medical cadres at every health center together with full coordination among the provided service at the three levels (primary health care units, public hospitals and specialized hospitals) to work out a complete referring system from the health center to the hospital and the other way around.
According to the ministry statistics, the health centers in Khartoum State amounted to 179, 39 of them model centers, in addition to 250 health centers affiliating to voluntary organizations where all these centers were founded in implementation of the primary health care polices which stand on fare distribution of services and involvement of the community in preserving its health to achieve development in the country.
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