The Federal Ministry of Health has said within the domain of quality, it has prioritized Quality of Care as a key strategy for improving the health of mothers and newborns.
This is as it said, having learnt from this, the Ministry is now in the process of expanding this to cover older children and adolescents.
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire disclosed this at the 2021 session of the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Coordination Platform for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent and Elderly Health plus Nutrition,(RMNCAEH+N) in Abuja.
According to Ehanire, “We can confidently say we made some significant progress, scored some points on our main resolve on this platform, which is to overall coordination with a key focus on creating synergy, aversion of duplication, complement efforts, leverage additional resources and maximize impact on outcomes.
Ehanire who was represented by the Director of Public Health, Dr Salma Ibrahim congratulated the leadership of the Core group, His Royal Highness, Dr Haliru Yahaya, Emir of Tsonga together with Dr Edugie Abebe, who sat through all the sessions in the last four quarters to see that Core group fulfil her coordination mandates and provided technical direction to the subcommittees.
“I am glad to inform members that at the onset, a key deliverable that emanated from the core group was the development of an annual operational plan for RMNCAEH+N, which was launched in March this year, and form our basis for an assessment today.”
“The plan is not aimed to replace existing regular work plans, to address specific bottleneck identified in the delivery of quality services to Women, children, adolescent and the elderly, including nutrition and health programmes.”
Ehanire also stated that the ministry started implementing the plan by looking inwards for better internal coordination and cohesion as it created platforms for departments and programs to interact.
“Notable among these is the retreat involving program managers from National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) and the department of Family health which has significantly smoothen government’s operations and is confronting the spirit of virtualization which makes people work in silos.”
“It is instructive for us to note that in this one-year space, the programme-based technical working groups have been significantly restructured and repositioned for better performance.”
“These include the child health technical working group, Reproductive Health & Family planning Working Groups, Adolescent Technical working group, Nutrition Partnership, Health Promotion Forum, and the Healthy Aging partnership.”
“The past 12months led us to kick-start the process of refining our policies, strategies, plans, and operational guidelines, more gender-responsive towards the improvement of the health and wellbeing of children, women, adolescents and the elderly”.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Permanent Secretary, Mallam Mamman Mahmuda who was also represented by the Dir of Reproductive Health, Dr Kayode Afolabi stressed that this is exactly one year and it is long time enough to assess what we have been able to achieve in terms of Coordination, Resource mobilization, quality technical delivery data, information management and accountability in RMNCAEH+N delivery.
He also added that this is to discuss challenges and work together to proffer solutions as It is indeed an opportunity to do a quick but frank review of RMNCAEH+N quality delivery issues.
“Furthermore, It’s no doubt been a challenging year for all given the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic which has taken its toll on virtually all activities around the globe.
“We however want to thank the RMNCAEH+N secretariat for putting all the necessary efforts to move the platform forward.
“The work is just starting and we need to work together to push the agenda forward.
Consequently, the Federal Ministry of Health on her part remains committed to providing the enabling environment and desired partnership to enhance RMNCAEH +N technical quality delivery services,” he reiterated.
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