Afrigather Luanda, 12 December 2023 – As we speak, 12 December, Common Well being Protection (UHC) Day, the Ministry of Well being of Angola and its companions are renewing their dedication to speed up motion to make sure that all folks have entry to the important well being companies they want for his or her well being and well-being, with out dealing with monetary difficulties.
Based on the Minister of Well being, Dr. Sílvia Lutucuta, the Angolan Government has prioritized the Social Sector, significantly Well being, with intense funding in human capital, the entry of recent well being professionals, the growth of infrastructures on the three ranges of care, improved entry to promotion, prevention, remedy, and rehabilitation companies to speed up Common Well being Protection in Angola.
“Lately, we now have focussed on guaranteeing that our inhabitants has entry to extra high quality well being companies, and we now have achieved many important outcomes. Nonetheless, this progress, whereas an excellent purpose to have a good time, shouldn’t be a purpose to get complacent, as a result of the highway to attaining Common Well being Protection on the earth, and significantly in Angola, remains to be lengthy. We should proceed to work collectively, urgently investing within the resilience of our well being system to maneuver in direction of attaining Common Well being Protection for all our residents.”
WHO research present that guaranteeing entry to well being for all can promote financial progress and employment, significantly for girls, and improve financial progress charges in low- and middle-income nations by as much as 2 proportion factors.
Regardless of notable progress in direction of bettering the well being of its residents, significantly in tackling infectious ailments and reproductive, maternal, and little one well being situations, the African area is a good distance from attaining Common Well being Protection.
WHO knowledge from 2022 exhibits that solely 7 out of 47 nations have good protection of important well being companies, with governments financing greater than half of their well being budgets. The information additionally exhibits restricted progress in tackling non-communicable ailments and bettering the capability of well being techniques, however no progress in decreasing the monetary dangers of accessing and/or utilizing well being companies within the African area.
Based on the WHO Consultant in Angola, Dr. Humphrey Karamagi, we urgently must convert the political dedication to Common Well being Protection into concrete actions that have an effect on folks’s well being and well-being, leaving nobody behind. Including that, “we’re assured that the Authorities and the folks of Angola are making progress in direction of the belief of Common Well being Protection – an necessary driver for attaining the well being and well-being that our inhabitants craves”.
“We have to proceed to behave swiftly to guard our inhabitants and assure the well-being of all. We should make investments extra in common well being, strengthen our well being techniques with certified well being professionals, infrastructure, and well being merchandise, broaden the first well being care method, and promote innovation to achieve everybody,” stated Dr Karamagi. He concluded that, “it’s time to strengthen joint work and everybody’s participation to enhance well being, taking into account that the actions wanted to realize common well being protection are usually not solely within the well being sector, but in addition in training, water, provincial administration, safety, gender, funding, employment and different sectors.”
This yr, for the Common Well being Protection Day celebrations, 5 priorities have been highlighted, which can information the method of nations within the coming yr, to ensure well being for all, which embrace: 1) tackling monetary threat safety 2) proactively addressing inequalities, 3) reorienting service supply techniques across the revitalized Main Well being Care method, 4) planning and monitoring the performance of the sub-national well being system and 5) investing within the resilience of the system to maintain the positive factors made.
For UNICEF Consultant in Angola, Antero de Pina, “the commemoration of Common Protection Day is an efficient alternative to acknowledge Angola’s dedication to strengthening major well being care within the nation, as highlighted within the commitments of the Luanda Declaration”.
“UNICEF will proceed to work carefully with companions such because the WHO and to help the federal government’s efforts as a result of we all know {that a} strong well being system based mostly on major well being care would be the cornerstone for attaining the Sustainable Improvement Objectives within the nation and guaranteeing the creation of higher situations for little one survival.” The Consultant added that, “a joint effort is required to realize equitable and high quality healthcare, accessible to all, all through the life cycle”.
The Common Well being Protection celebration is the annual assembly level for the rising Well being For All motion, a world demonstration to mark the anniversary of the United Nations Member States’ historic and unanimous endorsement of UHC in 2012 as a necessary precedence for worldwide improvement.
On the sidelines of the celebration of Common Well being Protection, at present Angola bolstered its dedication to bettering the well being of the inhabitants in a complete session attended by representatives of the nation’s 18 provinces and the completely different social companions, assessing the commitments contained within the Declaration on Main Well being Care in Angola, adopted on 16 June 2022. This instrument is essential for mobilizing authorities stakeholders and well being companions round the necessity to strengthen the Main Well being Care method to advertise the availability of high quality well being companies to all residents all through the nation.
