Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Welfare Dr Constantino Chiwenga at the ministry’s conference in Victoria Falls explained how the National Health Strategy (2021-2025) dovetails with the plan economic development, the National Development Strategy 1 (2021-2025).
“The ministry, in support of the National Development Strategy 1, has drawn up a National Health Strategy (2021-2025).
“This strategy is built around the thematic area of the National Development Strategy 1-Health and Well-being, which has eleven outcomes, each outcome having a number of strategic interventions guiding its implementation,” said the vice-president. -President Chiwenga.
Dr Chiwenga noted that the NHS is anchored in four (4) key result areas, namely policy and administration, public health, curative services and biomedical science and technology.
“There are four key result areas in the national health strategy, as guided by the direction of government program-based budgeting, and these are:
Policy and administration whose mandate is to provide political direction and direction for the achievement of a healthy nation by 2030, through increased national funding for health, improved human resources for performance and health governance; Public health by strengthening preventive services and promoting healthy lifestyles, that is, by expanding the coverage of public health interventions; Curative services whose mandate is to strengthen the quality of primary and hospital care services, i.e. better access to quality primary and hospital care and biomedical sciences and technologies whose objective is to promote ‘Access to affordable, acceptable and efficient quality equipment, drugs and sundries for better service delivery,’ said Dr Chiwenga.
Vice President Chiwenga explained that the NHS would be achieved using a revised ministry structure maximizing efficiency, transformative leadership and motivation of health workers.
“The national health strategy 2021-2025, in its implementation, will promote a strategic rebranding of the public health system. This will be achieved through several measures which include; implementation of a revised structure that maximizes efficiency and equity, transformative and accountable leadership of the health sector and motivation of health workers, through competitive compensation, adequate tools of the trade and incentives non-monetary, ”said Vice President Chiwenga.
Dr Chiwenga noted that the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare places client satisfaction at the center of the health care delivery system supported by nine divisions headed by chief directors.
“Thus, in order to ensure the availability of services and better customer satisfaction, the new structure of the ministry has nine divisions at the national level. Each division is headed by a Chief Director, who reports directly to the Secretary of Health and Child Welfare.
“The divisions are BioEngineering, Science and Pharmaceutical Production; General inspection of the health service; Health and legal regulations; Finance; Administration and Logistics; Public health; Human Resource Management; Curative services and policies, informatics, monitoring and evaluation, ”said Dr Chiwenga.
In order for the Ministry of Health to realize the achievement of the National Development Strategy 1, Vice President Chiwenga said that the ministry aims to provide the highest level of health care and improve the quality of life. of all citizens, in a transparent manner, respecting good business practices. governance.
“The ministry’s vision is to have the highest possible level of health care and quality of life for all citizens and permanent residents of Zimbabwe, by 2030.
“The objective is to improve the quality of life of our citizens. This will be achieved through hard work, dedication, honesty, professionalism, transparency, respect for good corporate governance and ethics as well as zero tolerance towards corruption, ”Vice-President Chiwenga concluded.
The 104-page NHS document covers issues such as health sector outcomes; Priorities of the health sector; NHS implementation framework and monitoring and evaluation. The issues of access to health services at different levels, increase in national financing of health services, availability of essential drugs and products and improvement of the performance of human resources in the health sector are dealt with in depth. .
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Zimbabwe.
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