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RWANDA PRIMARY HEALTH CARE AND DECENTRALISATION OF HEALTH SYSTEM. Claude SEKABARAGA, MD, MPH Director of planning, policy and capacity building. PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES. MOH: HRF, OAI. 30 DISTRICTS: DH, DP, CDLS, MUTUELLE. 416 SECTORS : Health center.
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RWANDA PRIMARY HEALTH CAREAND DECENTRALISATION OF HEALTH SYSTEM Claude SEKABARAGA, MD, MPHDirector of planning, policy and capacity building
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES MOH: HRF, OAI 30 DISTRICTS: DH, DP, CDLS, MUTUELLE 416 SECTORS : Health center 2080 CELLS: Health community post 14980 AGGLOMERATIONS: 2 Community health workers
PRIORITY INTERVENTIONS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES • Increase the use of family planning methods, especially the long term methods; • Investment in strong prevention interventions of major diseases; • Universal access to curative care for all people living in Rwanda through universal coverage of health insurance; • Improvement of quality of care through quality of training, e-health, investment in infrastructure, drugs management, equipment and performance based financing of providers; • Decentralization of health services at Umudugudu (Health post) and households level (Community Health workers); • Mobilization of financial resources.
INNOVATIVE INTERVENTIONS • Public subsidies (Health facilities budget support) through performance based financing; • Community health insurances; • High subsidy of drugs and products of higher prevalence diseases (Immunization, malaria, Hiv/aids and TB); • Autonomy of management of health facilities (hospitals and health centres), include now personnel; • Decentralisation, integration and task shifting in delivery of health care services.
GOR HEALTH BUDGET TRANSFERS TO DISTRICTS: 17,1 billions of RWF (32 millions USD)
HEALTH OFF BUDGET (NGO’S) TRANSFERS TO DISTRICTS: 10,4 billions (18 millions USD)
FAMILY PLANNING IN PBF PRIMARY HEALTH FACILITIES PILOT SITES 194% increase 60 50 55 50 45 2 40 R = 0.8635 35 30 25 Percentage 17 20 15 10 5 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2006 2007
PREVENTION OF TRANSMISSION OF HIV FROM MOTHERS TO CHILDREN SERVICES
IMPACT ON HEALH OF POPULATION
LESSONS LEARNT • Decentralisation and community participation: Accessibility, early treatment, ownership, implication of local leaders, community health workers, youth and women organisations, autonomy in management. • Community health insurance: Financial barrier, utilisation of primary health services. • Performance based financing: Quality, Rural to urban brain drain, local investment: Equipment, maintenance • Strong prevention: Universal distribution of mosquito-nets, hygiene and environment. • Partnership: Public, private, civil society and international cooperation implication.
CONCLUSION • Decentralisation and community participation contributed to rapid and efficient results; • Primary health care have been improved very much in terms of prevention of major diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, although many challenges due to level of poverty and quantity and quality human resources; • Great efforts must be put in elimination of major diseases like malaria, diseases due to lack of hygiene and/or which vaccines exist, universal accessto mosquito-nets and health insurance.