The director of Health Ousmane Cissé declared that Senegal is currently “better equipped” than in 2023, to deal with exceptional health situations, having obtained scores greater than or equal to the WHO recommendations relating to the 19 indicators of the International Health Regulations (IHR). The announcement was made yesterday Friday during the closing ceremony of a multisectoral annual assessment workshop on the progress of the International Health Regulations (IHR), which he chaired in Saly.
“Compared to 2023, we are currently better equipped to respond to health situations,” said Mr. Cissé, reports APS.
This meeting, which took place from Monday to Friday, saw the participation of various health stakeholders. An opportunity for Mr. Cissé to welcome the e-SPAR tool which has 15 capabilities and around 35 indicators, including 15 out of the 19 contained in the International Health Regulations.
”There is progress, to the extent that the WHO recommends having at least score 3 [ sur une note variant de 1 à 5] and we have two indicators of level 5, and 6 of level 4 and around 11 of level 3,” he rejoiced.
However, he specifies that there remains ”further progress to be made so that there are no longer level 2 or even 3 indicators”.
Before looking ahead to other significant advances in the future:
”There are prospects, with an action plan to boost the indicators which are at level 1 and 2 especially at level 3 so that at the 2026 evaluation we have fewer level 1 and 2 indicators ”, he said.
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