Summary/ Introduction

Focus Areas
Protecting Achievements

• 	E.g. Polio
  	The Region was certified Polio-free in 1991, and has achieved 13 years with no cases. In the last two years an outbreak in Nigeria has threatened re-introduction of wild poliomyletis to the Region. The Region has been kept safe from Polio by maintaining coverage rates and commitment to eradication.

  Ensuring our existing accomplishments are sustained, and are scaled to the whole of our region, and result in long-lived strengthening of national institutions
• Health gains are not necessarily cumulative and permanent, and must be managed and maintained
• Health gains may be reversed by lack of investment, natural events, population movement, war and other violence, disruption of the social fabric and new diseases and risks.

 

Health Systems and Services

Over the past …………. years health systems and services have improved through the introduction programs and policies which had to be constantly monitored to ensure that the quality is sustained and even improved. In this regard a National Quality Council for Health was established in 2005 to provide …………… while a National Framework for Quality Improvement in Health Care has been drafted to provide guidance to the various health institutions on quality improvements. [ Read more ]