Health System Performance : Experts Evaluate Quality, Quantity

Actors in the Health System Performance Reinforcement Project have met to evaluate the evolution of the project destined to improving the quality of care, efficiency in the use of resources; and equity in access to health care nationwide. Chairing the annual session yesterday, June 22, 2021 was the Secretary General of the Ministry of Public Health, Professor Louis Richard Ndjock, in the presence of technical and financial partners such as the World Bank.
The Coordinator of the Health System Performance Reinforcement Project, Firmin Bevang said the session will examine more specifically the 2020 Annual Performance Report of the Project, the state of implementation of the recommendations of the previous sessions and the level of execution of the 2021 action plan. He said the committee members are out to know what is working and that which is not working, examine and validate the report of the 2020 work plan and also sort out modalities for the payment of subsidies to health facilities, especially as actors carry out projects before payment. He added that due to multiple contingencies, from 2018 to mid 2020, the project experienced delays in the payment of subsidies, which somehow slowed down the proper functioning of health structures. After several large-scale actions undertaken by the project’s governing bodies (Ministry of Public Health and the World Bank), the second half of 2020 saw the effective implementation of the project’s debt repayment plan, which at the moment amounts to FCFA 10 billion. The Coordinator explained that the project has already carried out the payment of subsidies to health facilities amounting to FCFA 8 billion which is approximately 80 per cent of...