Stakeholders in Kebbi State, in partnership with the US Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID) State2State, have ratified a five-year improvement plan for the well being sector.
At a four-day workshop held in Sokoto, themed: “Kebbi State 2025 -2029 Strategic Well being Improvement Plan,” USAID State2State partnered with the Kebbi State Ministry of Well being to develop a well being sector strategic plan, together with coverage, programme implementation and repair supply.
It served as an avenue to evaluate and harmonise thematic content material and develop a draft of the Kebbi State 2025 to 2029 well being improvement plan with objectives, strategic aims, and interventions.
Different areas of focus on the assembly are understanding the macroeconomic implications for costing and discussing the plan’s monetary and human useful resource wants in response to thematic areas.
In his welcome tackle, the everlasting secretary of the Kebbi State Ministry of Well being, Dr Shehu Nuhu Koko, acknowledged USAID State2State assist and collaboration in reviewing the state strategic well being plan, which has expired since 2022.
Shehu expressed optimism that the workshop’s final result will align the state well being sector plan with nationwide well being insurance policies, attaining common well being protection by 2030.
“This workshop is predicted to map out five-year strategic plans within the well being sector in conformity with the nationwide well being care strategic plans, which can assure enchancment in well being care financing, human assets for well being, and well being infrastructure to be put in place with all needed facilities, particularly on the PHC degree.
“All these are achievable with the implementation of the common well being protection, with the innovation to convey the non-public sector into well being financing,” he stated.
Buttressing the necessity for her presence on the well being stakeholders assembly, Hajiya Aisha Usman, the Everlasting Secretary of the Ministry of Price range and Financial Planning, stated, ” This, being a planning occasion, the presence of the Ministry of Price range and Financial Planning is crucial to present technical assist and allow us to do Medium-Time period Sector Strategic (MTSS), planning that may kind a part of the 2025 funds course of.”
Emphasising the necessity for coverage synergy inside the well being sector, Usman Faleye, state group lead, USAID State2State, urged individuals to maximise the workshop’s beneficial properties in turning across the fortune of Kebbi State’s well being sector by means of strategic plans.
There have been displays on well being information, the present state strategic well being improvement plan (2017-2022), the necessity for reviewing the present plan, and an introduction to fundamental strategic planning, its significance, and key elements by Olatunji Awoleye, the guide employed by the Kebbi State Ministry of Well being.
