Roadmap for the Ministry of Public Health and Population (Marie Greta Roy Clément)
Summary: A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Marie Greta Roy Clément at the Ministry of Public Health and Population. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
Key Findings
- Anchors the health mandate in updating and implementing the national health policy and the health master plan for 2012-2022, rather than in a new plan, and adds institutional strengthening at central, deconcentrated, departmental and local level.
- Calls for Etats généraux de la Santé to identify the strategies for a competitive health system, which puts a national consultation ahead of the reform list.
- Sets institutional creations that outlast a term: an accreditation and regulation agency for hospital centers in Haiti, and a law establishing an ethics code for epidemiological, biomedical, health systems, traditional medicine and social science research.
- Includes a universal health insurance program and a revision of the hospital staff salary scale, so financing and pay sit in the same instruction as service delivery.
- Requires the transformation of certain hospitals into university hospitals, particularly outside Port-au-Prince, alongside a stronger national ambulance center and stronger emergency care in departmental hospitals.
- Retains cholera as an explicit target, accelerating the fight for its elimination, alongside consolidating communicable disease programs and intensifying work on emerging and endemic diseases.
- Brings traditional medicine inside the system, with support for its practitioners and training programs on medicinal plants, and requires better organized psychiatric assistance nationally with mental health promotion programs and action plans.
Full Description
A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Marie Greta Roy Clément at the Ministry of Public Health and Population. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
How to cite
Office of the Prime Minister of Haiti, 2017, Roadmap for the Ministry of Public Health and Population (Marie Greta Roy Clément), http://www.sgcm.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/feuille-de-route-Ministre-de-la-Sante.pdf