Priorities of the Nationwide Eye Well being Coverage
1. Working in the direction of common well being protection
The primary precedence of the coverage is entry. Traditionally, eye well being services have been primarily in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital metropolis, which meant they have been unreachable to many individuals and communities. Over time, entry elevated with organisations supporting some services throughout the nation. However these solely lasted whereas the organisations have been actively working in Liberia. And there have been many distant and laborious to succeed in areas within the nation the place there have been no eye well being providers in any respect.
Within the coverage, we wish to work in the direction of common well being protection. We wish to concentrate on entry and making certain that providers are nearer to folks and communities and that nobody is left behind.
2. Rising in-country human sources for eye well being
The second precedence is human useful resource as in comparison with different nations within the area, Liberia was far behind. Subsequently, a coverage path outlining coaching was included. This entails:
- Establishing centres that prepare mid-level workers
- Making certain there’s an equitable distribution of well being care staff throughout the nation
- Introducing approaches to encourage and encourage well being care staff to work within the hardest to succeed in areas of the nation
The work already achieved has led to nice enhancements. For instance, the well being system now employs cataract surgeons based mostly within the nation.
3. Making a resilient infrastructure
The coverage additionally supplied a strategic path on the necessity for the appropriate infrastructure to be in place and for acceptable gear is offered to supply good high quality providers. These are wanted alongside knowledge techniques that may monitor the efficiency of the attention well being providers. These techniques may also assist us to know if providers are impacting the prevalence of visible impairment and supply the proof wanted to design future programmes, use for advocacy and mobilise sources.
4. Aligning to world targets and insurance policies
We’ve got additionally made certain that the coverage thought of key world ideas. For instance, the fairness and inclusion of marginalised teams, folks with disabilities, folks from a low socio-economic backgrounds and different marginalised teams. There are additionally coverage statements on eye well being services being local weather and environment-friendly to scale back the impression of eye well being providers on local weather and the atmosphere.
