Sector Plan For Health 2013-2017

Abstract

The goal of the health sector is to provide equitable, affordable and quality healthcare of the highest standard to all citizens. The Health Sector will focus on strengthening and scaling up of cost-effective, preventive and promotive healthcare system, with special attention to control of communicable and non-communicable diseases, reproductive, child-health and emergency services, environmental and rural health services. Other areas of focus will be healthcare financing, ensuring quality of health commodities, improvement of infrastructure and provision of medical equipment. The Sector Plan sets the national strategic priorities for the health sector during the plan period (2013-2017), and identifies health programmes that are likely to make the highest impact towards improving health. Due to the nature of these programmes they will be accorded higher priority ranking in subsequent sector programming. This Sector Plan identifies 11 (eleven) priority investment areas where flagship projects are drawn from. These areas primarily focus on improving the physical and financial accessibility of health services to the general population, and using the most proven interventions while addressing key problems such as high maternal mortality during pregnancy and childbirth among others. The Plan also includes projects that aim at improving effectiveness and efficiency in health care service delivery systems through innovation. Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programmes are also included as mechanisms for additional investment to the health sector for areas that public resources are limited, such as medical tourism and locally derived natural medicinal products...