2024-05-29 22:55:32
From the APS particular envoy: Sokhna Khadidiatou Sakho
Geneva, Could 29 (APS) – A number of African ministers current on the 77th World Well being Meeting pleaded for the usage of home sources to maneuver in direction of a great coverage for common well being protection on the continent.
”We should transfer in direction of mobilizing extra home sources with modern financing mechanisms,” stated the Senegalese Minister of Well being, Dr. Ibrahima Sy, who took half, on Wednesday, in Geneva, in a panel on the theme: ”Improvements in common well being protection and useful resource mobilization: African success and views”.
The dialogue is organized by the Ivorian Ministry of Well being and Public Hygiene and the International Fund to Battle AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, on the sidelines of the World Well being Meeting, scheduled from Could 27 to Could 1. June across the world theme: “A world mobilized for well being, well being for all”.
“Obligatory medical insurance is a problem” and “we have to implement a well being danger protection system for your entire inhabitants and above all to finish direct fee,” he stated.
For the minister from Senegal, it’s a matter of “decreasing the burden of illness associated to illness, by taking into consideration the determinants of well being to ensure that everybody residing within the nationwide territory has entry to high quality care, with out problem monetary’”. .
With this in thoughts, his counterpart from Côte d’Ivoire, Pierre Dimba, identified that “his nation has a regulation on obligatory medical insurance, however what’s vital is to search out new home sources for common well being protection to finance.
“We presently have 12 million individuals registered and we’re working to combine the casual sector,” he stated.
For the Minister of Well being of Mauritius, “figuring out new sources of funding is important to maneuver in direction of common well being protection”.
Taking part on this panel, Malawi’s Minister of Well being, Dr Kandodo Chiponda, known as for “versatile funding from companions to assist international locations to handle the challenges of common well being protection”.
The manager director of the International Fund to Battle AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Pierre Sands, invited his “African international locations to be modern in mobilizing home sources as a result of nobody must be left stranded.
”Common well being protection is important,” he insisted.
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