Bauchi State government in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development-Integrated Health Programme (USAID-IHP) has planned to review and certify health sector fact-sheet in order to improve facts sharing on the performance of the sector.
The State Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Ali Babayo who acknowledged the financial and technical support provided by USAID-IHP in the area of health interventions.
He added that fact-sheet issues in the State have lingered for long and the renewed strategy will provide reliable and dependable health information on its scarcity and insufficiency.
The Permanent Secretary stated that, USAID-IHP had contributed to ensure the State training and retraining of health workers at their places of work so as not to ignore attending to clients at the facilities across the State for effective and efficient healthcare service delivery.
“Bauchi State government will continue to prioritize the health sector that is the reason it has recently employed additional workers in order to fill up gaps on those that had retired from service.
Also, the Bauchi State Director, USAID-IHP, Dr Alhassan Siaka, said the fact-sheet would enable stakeholders in the health sector to review progress in the implementation of health policies.
“We have realized that the major challenge in the health sector is that of human resources for health, so we are to look at various strategies to be able to bridge the gap”.
The Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BSPHCDA), Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, while appreciating stakeholders for critically studying the 2022 fact-sheet, as well as reviewed document that may aide effective information management and sharing in the State health sector.
Presenting a paper on “Indicators Trend and Achievements, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)”, USAID-IHP representative, Samson Adeyemi exposed some progress in the sector, but with epileptic changes in ANC, PNC, skilled birth delivery and maternal deaths.
