Once more… learning from African Health Systems
March 2, 2012 3 Comments
This picture belongs to the front of the “Field Exchange Magazine” (Emergency Nutrition Network), which I received yesterday. When I picked it up from the mail box there were two things which attrack my attention more than usual… One was the image of a grandmother, who has a healthy appearance and a strong looking, as if she was saying “let me know how to use those modern tools and I will change my familiy, because I am strong enough and I really want to change it!”. Another one was the cell phone in her hand… the future is in her hand, and she is holding the future strongly. Probably more than we are doing in our “developed” communities.
Please, don`t loose this other report called “The future of Healthcare in Africa” from Economist Intelligence Unit. Noticed two remarkable points (page 4) which are repeated again and again in all related reports that talks about healthcare systems and its future
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- Giving local communities more control over healthcare resources
- Improving access to healthcare via mobile technologies
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Finally, I want to remind you this other post that we published few weeks ago in Spanish “Salud de calidad a bajo coste“, about this similar issue and I encourage you once more, in case you didn`t do it before to read this magnificant report made by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine called: “Good Health at Low Cost” 25 years on. Noticed also that Ethiopia and its just born Primary Health Care is present in all of them. Continue learning…
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Nice piece on the health systems dilemma in Africa. Will go through the two documents and put up my comments. In Kenya we are still fighting for a social healthcare systems to protect the poor.
Jambo Eric.
Thank you for your comment and support. Nice to hear your voices and opinions from down there, we would like to learn from your personal points of views apart from public or private institutions working in Kenya or other low-middle income countries.
Asante sana