The Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, in agreement with that of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, launched from April 24 to 26, 2024 in Conakry, a national consultative forum with the theme: “Strengthening community health to achieve universal health coverage“.
For three days, health experts from Guinea, Rwanda, Togo, Niger and Burkina Faso worked to find possible solutions to the problems linked to the development of primary health care.
Amed Kourouma, expert on health issues explains that “Everyone comes to the hospital to treat either their malaria, their high blood pressure or their diabetes. Community health makes it possible to roll out this package of quality integrated services at the grassroots level. This is the basis of this strategy. And this leads us to bring together the actors at all levels“.
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At the end of the various works, the expected results relate, among other things, to the increase in investments in community health, the acceleration of the recruitment process of new health workers in order to fill the gap of health workers in rural area.
Mamadou Cissé, community agent explains that “The idea is to be able to find a mechanism to be able to sustain the financing of this strategy by supporting capacity building at the level of health structures.“.
In Guinea, community health remains a very worrying subject. A situation marked by deserted health posts which complicate the care of patients. The identification of these problems will perhaps allow the definitive resolution of these problems.
By Mamadou Mouctar Souaré (Conakry, correspondence)
04/28/2024 at 5:43 p.m.
