health financing advisor, Dr Farba Lamine Sall advocates multi-sector accountability to face the challenges of access to care in Senegal. Dr Sall was speaking on the sidelines of the advocacy day, organized last Saturday, by the Framework for consultation, coordination and advocacy actions of civil society for health in Senegal (3CAP-Santé) whose theme is “Our health, our rights”.
For 3CAP-Santé, it is a question of defending the rights of everyone, everywhere in the world, to access health services, since according to figures from the World Health Organization (WHO). “At least 4.5 billion people, more than half of the world’s population, are not fully covered by essential health services in 2021.” Thus, faced with these challenges linked to access to care, Dr Farba Lamine Sall, for him, “ministers must be obliged to implement multisectorality”. The health financing advisor, who cites as proof the exchange book of the Ministry of Health which requires collaboration among others with the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Sports, calls on civil society to demand that it there is collaboration between the Ministry of Health and others. This will, according to him, allow “the negative ends” to be taken care of.
On the other hand, as for the “positive ends”, Dr Sall believes that “we must also look at the level of the Ministry of Sports, the Ministry of Family, the Ministry of the Armed Forces”. And the former Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Health and Social Action assures: “if you want to have health services available throughout the territory to which populations can access, you must have the nurse anesthetists all the way to Fongolémi,” according to the teacher at CESAG.
