Afrigather The World Well being Group welcomes a brand new funding dedication made by the UK’s Division of Well being and Social Care to help Nigeria in strengthening her well being workforce within the imaginative and prescient of attaining Common Well being Protection
The grant amounting to £2 will cowl two years interval to help the federal government of Nigeria to optimize the efficiency, high quality, and affect of the well being workforce by way of evidence-informed insurance policies and methods.
The UK supplied a multi-million-pound increase to help healthcare employees recruitment and retention in three African nations – Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana – supporting resilience towards international ealth challenges.
Nigerian well being system like many nations within the international south has been beset with challenges in having a resilient well being system that is ready to present high quality well being companies, promote well being and stop ailments. The challenges have been additional exacerbated by the latest COVID-19 pandemic which immediately impacts the provision of well being staff to offer high quality companies throughout the nation.
The British Excessive Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr Richard Montgomery says, “A talented, well-motivated and satisfactory well being workforce is essential for Nigeria to #EndPreventableDeaths and construct resilience towards international threats.
This UK Worldwide Improvement funding aligns with the Nigerian well being workforce strategic plan and can assist the nation upskill its staff, and enhance well being outcomes in the long term.”
The two-year HRH mission goals to help the federal government at nationwide and sub-national ranges and help regulatory our bodies, skilled associations, and different key stakeholders to develop transformative methods for scaling up the amount and high quality of well being staff, together with competency-based curricula growth and opinions.
It is going to assist to align funding in HRH with the present and future wants of the inhabitants and well being techniques; strengthen the capability of establishments together with regulatory our bodies for efficient public coverage stewardship, management and governance, optimize well being staff’ retention, equitable distribution, and efficiency and strengthen the administration of Well being workforce knowledge for monitoring and accountability. The mission will implement interventions in Nigeria.
The mission will draw on the technical capability of WHO to strengthen well being techniques together with expertise of implementing related initiatives with considerable outcomes prior to now. Implementation at sub-national ranges with a give attention to 6 states of Cross River, Enugu, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, and Lagos, will construct on the presence and technical help being supplied to State governments by way of the 37 WHO sub-national workplaces in Nigeria.
“The power of each well being system displays the capability and adequacy of its well being workforce, that are essential to ship high quality companies to deal with inhabitants well being wants,” says Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, WHO Consultant in Nigeria.
For a resilient and efficient well being system, Nigeria should have satisfactory numbers of well being staff who’re match for goal, motivated to carry out, and equitably distributed throughout the subnational ranges to boost fairness in entry to their companies by the inhabitants in want.
“By means of the UK authorities’s beneficiant help by way of WHO, we’ll deploy the technical help from the three ranges of the group to help the event of evidence-based insurance policies and methods, capability constructing and administration for improved planning and administration of Nigeria’s well being workforce”.
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About The UK Division for Worldwide Improvement
The UK Division for Worldwide Improvement was changed by International, Commonwealth and Improvement Workplace is devoted to ending excessive poverty inside creating nations, together with Nigeria.
The UK company works to unravel probably the most troublesome international challenges comparable to poverty and illness, mass migration, insecurity and battle.
In Nigeria, the UK helps to cut back poverty and enhance the lives of its residents by enhancing well being companies and entry to trendy household planning strategies.
World Well being Group
Devoted to the well-being of all individuals and guided by science, the World Well being Group leads and champions international efforts to present everybody, in all places an equal probability at a secure and wholesome life. Our mission is to advertise well being, preserve the world secure and serve the weak. Extra at www.who.int
