Afrigather The World Well being Group (WHO) Mauritius Nation Workplace launched its new Biennial Workplan 2024-2025 with the Ministry of Well being and Wellness (MOHW) on March 18, 2024. This results-focused doc, which is the fruit of a detailed collaborative effort between WHO Mauritius and the MOHW, defines the priorities of the Group for the following two years when it comes to public well being outcomes.
According to the WHO’s 13th Normal Programme of Work (GPW13), these are divided into 4 pillars, specifically Advancing Common Well being Protection; Addressing Well being Emergencies; Selling More healthy Populations; and Selling Information and Innovation. These pillars kind the core of WHO Mauritius’ work in supporting the MOHW in its imaginative and prescient to constantly enhance the standard of the nation’s well being companies.
The launching ceremony marks the start of the operationalization part of the WHO Biennial Workplan and Programme Funds 2024-2025. It featured a complete overview of the Workplan together with its excessive precedence outputs throughout a presentation by WHO Mauritius’ Programme Administration Officer and technical employees.
The Minister of Well being and Wellness, Kailash Jagutpal, took the chance to congratulate WHO Mauritius and his Ministry for the work already achieved, stating that the broad vary of outputs contained within the new Workplan was a promising start line for the following biennium.
For her half, WHO Consultant, Dr Anne Ancia, defined that the Workplan “defines our strategic deliverables for the following two years and allocates sources for his or her achievement”, earlier than noting that WHO Mauritius is assured that its implementation “will additional speed up the nation’s spectacular strides in well being and well being programs, whereas additionally addressing the rising dangers that are threatening a few of these achievements”.
Flagship tasks of the earlier Workplan 2022-2023 embody the elaboration of a Nationwide Built-in Motion Plan and Service Framework for Non-Communicable Illnesses (NCDs account for 80% of the nation’s illness burden and 85% of mortalities), the establishing of an Built-in Look after Older Individuals (ICOPE) Strategic and Motion Plan (the share of the inhabitants aged 60 and above greater than doubled between 2000 and 2021), the drafting of latest laws for meals security and tobacco management, in addition to WHO Mauritius’ ongoing technical assist and capability constructing actions.
Dr Ancia additionally warned that vital well being challenges lie forward: “Local weather change threatens the well being system and among the well being achievements of the previous many years, significantly in the case of communicable illnesses; and the resurgence of dengue is only one instance. Anti-microbial resistance is quickly eroding the therapy obtainable for some key infectious illnesses, akin to tuberculosis, malaria and HIV. Rising actions of individuals, items and companies and the emergence of latest epidemic susceptible illnesses proceed to threaten nationwide, regional and international well being safety, and modifications in life habits, usually attributable to socioeconomic upheavals pause newer dangers for our well being and wellbeing.”
The Biennial Workplan and Programme Funds 2024-2025 had been elaborated throughout a seven-step course of which started with the indentification of well being gaps and developments in accordance with WHO Mauritius’ present Nation Cooperation Technique 2023-2026, and concluded with a high quality examine by the output supply crew. They embody an in depth description of deliberate outputs, every of which is tied to a key efficiency indicator to measure the influence of the exercise. Within the phrases of the WHO’s Outcomes Framework Administration: “What can’t be measured just isn’t achieved.”
The Programme Funds 2024-2025 could be consulted here.
