Eval Asikong

21/07/2023

20/01/2023

Prince Otu And The Health Sector

Healthcare has always been an indispensable requirement for the continuity of mankind and maintenance of integrity in families, states and the nation as a whole. This indispensable requirement, just like man, has undergone series of evolutions in order for it to get to where we now find it. Without access to healthcare, people are far more at risk. Diseases, malnutrition, pregnancy – all can become incredibly dangerous without proper help and support.

As with other social institutional structures, there are a wide variety of health systems around the world and tend to reflect the history, culture, and economics of the states in which they evolve. Nations design and develop health systems in accordance with their needs and resources. In some countries, health system planning is distributed within a competitive market of private health care providers, while in others, there is a concerted effort among governments, trade unions, charities, religious organisations, or other co-ordinated bodies to deliver planned public health care services targeted to the populations they serve.

Health care is conventionally regarded as an important determinant in promoting the general physical, mental and social well-being of people around the world and can contribute to a significant part of a country's economy, development and industrialisation when efficient. An example of this was the declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of worldwide eradication of smallpox eradication in 1980, the first disease in human history to be completely eliminated by deliberate health care interventions. Recognizing the value of rehabilitation and its impact on individuals, families, and communities, the allocation of resources to rehabilitation services should be seen as an investment, rather than a cost.

Healthcare is an indispensable pillar of the society, as healthy populations are more productive and live longer. That’s why countries spend trillions of dollars on providing healthcare to its people. The healthcare demands of a society keep growing and changing with time, and governments have the responsibility of putting measures in place to cater to the changing needs. The current healthcare demands among different societies around the globe are very different from the demands of the people in the past centuries. Even in the modern times we live in today, our healthcare needs keep on changing. One of the notable changes is the advancement of healthcare systems and services, thanks to technology advancement. As the world population continues to grow at an annual rate of 1.2%, an efficient healthcare system is now more important than ever.

However, often times, our health care systems are often plagued with litany of problems such as: decay in health facilities, shortages or non availability of essential drugs to assuage the health plights of the common man, the outbreak of strange pandemics that often leave healthcare providers frustrated, shortage of health personal, poor or lack of funding, corruption, fake drugs, etc.

The Otu-led administration is coming in with a compound solution-box to address all the inadequacies at the health sector and birth a new health scheme that would be programmed to maximize delivery of expected mandate through extensive inclusion of health experts at the various fields. For standardized operational practices, there shall be continuous knowledge upgrades through programmes like in-service trainings, workshops, seminars and health research. For efficient and effective health care delivery system, the issue of shortage in manpower shall be underscored as an issue of emergency, while working on improving the take-home packages and due allowances to reinforce and spur their motivations.

A formation of response mechanism that would be swift in arresting outbreak of pandemic, shall not only be put in place, but well funded and highly equipped for the task. The positive impact that the Otu led administration is going to create in health is going to be a remarkable departure from what a typical health care delivery used to be in Africa because efforts and modalities shall be directed towards drastic reduction in the rate of mortality. There is a very positive correlation between efficient and effective health care system and demography. It is the vision of every responsive administration to give-in the very best in the health sector, Prince Otu led administration is not going to be different.

By Eval Asikong
Otu Official Media

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