Government strengthens regional health

Two agreements on boosting the efficiency of health funds were signed on May 6, 2014 in Yaounde.

The Regional Fund for the promotion of health is a decentralised structure in health governance made up of the State, technical and financial partners as well as communities to improve the performance of the national health system. It was in this light that two constitutive protocol agreements for regional funding for the promotion of health in the North and South regions of Cameroon were signed on May 6, 2014 Yaounde. The North Region received FCFA 291 million while the South Region got FCFA 241 million.

Speaking at the occasion, the Minister of Public Health André Mama Fouda said the signing of the protocol agreements is a step in the process which will end in the putting in place of the statutory organs of the new regional funds for the promotion of health in the regions in the North and South Regions.

He thanked the technical and financial partners notably the World Bank, GIZ and KFW, among others, for their support to this important reform in the health sector. André Mama Fouda used the occasion to call on other partners to join the government in the project.

The two new protocol agreements bring the number of agreements signed to seven out of ten regions in the country notably Littoral, North West, South West, Centre, West, North and South. The agreement will support the Ministry of Public Health in the regions to strengthen good governance, mobilisation and management of resources for financing of health, development of community health as well as the management and distribution of drugs and other pharmaceutical products, among others.