Zoundwéogo/Health: Associations take stock of access of vulnerable groups to health services
The associations Zak La Yilguemdé (AZLY) and Teel-Taaba in partnership with the Permanent Secretariat of Non-Governmental Organizations (SPONG) organized, on Wednesday, a workshop to present the results of a collection of data on access of vulnerable groups to health services, in municipalities in the Manga health district.
Burkina Faso is engaged in an effort to improve access for vulnerable groups to health services, following the example of the measure of free care for pregnant women and children under 5 years of age in force since 2016. associations Zak La Yilguemdé (AZLY) and Teel-Taaba, as part of a citizen monitoring project on this national commitment, carried out studies on this subject in the communes of Manga, Gon-boussougou, Bindé and Guiba within the district Manga health center (Zoundwéogo province).
‘We are here today to present the results of this data collection and together with the invited authorities, we will formulate recommendations and propose solutions capable of achieving the re
solution of dysfunctions at the local level’, indicated, at At the start of the work, the project manager “community monitoring for improving access of vulnerable groups to health services” at the SPONG level, Nadine Diao. Around twenty local actors made up of administrative officials, leaders of local authorities, health structures and associations and representatives of village and religious structures took part in the workshop.
The secretary general of the Zoundwéogo province, Innoncents Ouattara, welcoming the holding of the meeting, noted that it is of great importance.
For him, the workshop is both ‘a framework for strengthening the coordination of health interventions and an opportunity to share information that can contribute to improving the living conditions of our populations through a better offer of health services. health’ particularly for vulnerable groups.
It will also make it possible, he said, to shed light on the effectiveness of the implementation of the measure of free care for pregnan
t women and children under 5 years old and to achieve ” strong recommendations with a view to achieving the expected results.
Nadine Diao announced on this subject that the conclusions resulting from the work of the workshop will subsequently be the subject of “advocacy and questioning both at the local and national level for the removal of bottlenecks in terms of access to health services’.
The project “community monitoring for improving access of vulnerable groups to health services” in which the restitution workshop is part is being carried out, across Burkina Faso, in 20 communes in the health districts of Kaya, Boussouma, Fada, Tenkodogo, Manga, Pô and Koudougou. It is supported by SPONG in partnership with local associations such as AZLY and Teel-Taaba. The project benefits from financial support from UNICEF to the tune of approximately 256 million CFA francs and lasts from October 2021 to December 2023.
Source: Burkina Information Agency