NSHIP improves ANC, workers productivity in Bauchi – Official
NSHIP improves ANC, workers productivity in Bauchi – Official
By Mohammed Ahmed Kaigama
Antenatal
Bauchi, Feb. 8, 2019 (NAN) The Bauchi State Commissioner for Health, Dr Zuwaira Ibrahim, says the intervention of World Bank, Nigeria State Health Investment Project (NSHIP) have scaled up Antenatal Care (ANC) delivery and improve health workers productivity in the state.
Ibrahim stated this in her paper presentation entitled ‘Performance Based Financing: A tool for achieving Universal Health Coverage’ at a lecture organized by the Clinical Activities Coordinating Committee (CACC) of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) in Bauchi on Friday.
She said the state with the intervention of NSHIP project Performance-based financing had witnessed improvement in Antenatal care attendants and health workers productivity.
“Through PBF intervention, we have been able to ensure that we have the needed staff to work in critical service areas within the health sector and pregnant women ANC attendance had been scaled up seriously.
“PBF intervention is in seven local Government areas of the state; namely Bauchi, Dass, Katagum, Gamawa, Ningi, Misau and Toro, which covers 133 primary health cares and eight general hospitals and specialist hospital,” Ibrahim said.
“The scheme which is being practised worldwide was implemented in the state in June 2017, adding that within short time of the implementation, it improved the quantity and quality services provided especially at Primary Health Centres as more staff now avail themselves to work.
“Health personnel appreciates Performance Based Financing because it increases staff remuneration and it is a more just system because people earn more when they work more. Government finds it attractive since it helps them to improve social services, enhance efficiency and boost the health status of the population.
“Performance Based Financing expands coverage of health services for the general population and especially for the poorest and improves access to good quality health services,” she stated.
Earlier, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Mohammed Alkali, represented by the Chairman Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC), Dr Sa’id Abubakar Kaddas, said that the purpose of organizing the lecture was to educate staff drawn from various departments and units on burning issues, adding that such event holds on regular basis in the institution.
He also stated that the main mandate of the teaching hospital are trainings, service delivery and research, assuring that the pieces of information disseminated by the staff of the different units during the interaction session would be utilized judiciously by the management for the benefit of the facility and the general public.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Performance-based financing is promoted as a promising strategy for improving health service delivery and helping to reach the Millennium Development Goals one and two.
It also transfers money or material goods conditional on taking a measurable action or achieving a predetermined healthcare performance target. (NAN)
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Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola