The News Review:
- Promoting mother, child health care
- Tanzania: Campaign Gets Fresh Impetus
- MIRPURKHAS: Staff shortage hits health centres
Promoting mother, child health care
The Tide – Apr 24, 2008
Monica recalls with pain and regret how a friend of her?s died seven years ago due to an alleged mismanagement of her pregnancy-related complication at a tertiary health institution. But fate was still to take her to LASUTH as she was rushed there a few days later for emergency operation. Monica was later delivered of a baby girl by a team of four medical doctors. Analysts say that Monica?s attitude toward tertiary health care institutions was based on misconceptions. They argue that such misconceptions result from years of inefficiency and poor administration of health policies by those institutions. ??A large number of Nigerians are ignorant of some positive developments in the health sector, including the rehabilitation of some public hospitals. ?Many are even unaware of the availability of health care facilities at their doorsteps.
Tanzania: Campaign Gets Fresh Impetus
AllAfrica.com – Apr 24, 2008
Currently, health gets 10. 2 percent of the annual national budget. Prime Minister Stoltenberg, who has been on a global campaign to mobilise leaders to step up efforts for better maternal and child health, expressed concern at Tanzania’s high child and maternal mortality rates. "Maternal and child mortality rates in Tanzania are still too high. Significant new resources are needed to scale up known effective interventions if we want to reduce them. I am calling on bilateral and multilateral partners, national and international, to align their resources and support this plan," the Norwegian premier said. Every year in the country, 8, 100 mothers die due to childbirth related causes and pregnancy complications.
MIRPURKHAS: Staff shortage hits health centres
Pakistan Dawn – Apr 24, 2008
The district support manager of the programme, Huzoor Bux Leghari, has told this to Dawn. He said under an agreement with the district government on May 16, 2007, management of 98 health facilities – including 38 basic health units, 47 dispensaries (government and district council dispensaries), 11 mother and child health centres, and two Unani Shifa Khana – were handed over to him by the district government. He said that 17 closed health centres were made functional while eight female medical officers were recruited on salary of Rs35,000 per month to provide better facilities to people. He said that the district health department was providing Rs3,641,000 per month for running these 98 health centres and from this budget medicines were being purchased for the centres. He said that he had ensured availability of anti-snake venom (ASV) and anti-rabies (ARV) vaccines at the health centres that were previously not available in the taluka hospital and rural health centres of the district… He said under an agreement with the district government on May 16, 2007, management of 98 health facilities – including 38 basic health units, 47 dispensaries (government and district council dispensaries), 11 mother and child health centres, and two Unani Shifa Khana – were handed over to him by the district government. He said that 17 closed health centres were made functional while eight female medical officers were recruited on salary of Rs35,000 per month to provide better facilities to people. He said that the district health department was providing Rs3,641,000 per month for running these 98 health centres and from this budget medicines were being purchased for the centres. He said that he had ensured availability of anti-snake venom (ASV) and anti-rabies (ARV) vaccines at the health centres that were previously not available in the taluka hospital and rural health centres of the district. He said that due to strict checking of the staff, OPD has now been doubled in 98 health centres. Mr Leghari said that a philanthropist had donated Rs500,000 to this programme.
