Picture a female in a distant environment needing to return to the closest well being facility for comply with-up therapy getting a reminder on her cellular mobile phone or a patient needing the subsequent prescription of her hypertension medication getting this by electronic mail devoid of the actual physical make contact with at a overall health facility. Although these might look compact, it would make a variance in strengthening equitable access to wellbeing treatment to distant and underserved communities with out the economic wreck or impoverishment.
eHealth is a crucial component of obtaining universal wellbeing coverage and can aid teaching of the health and fitness workforce, give exact and timely client details by electronic well being data, and boost the operations and fiscal performance of well being treatment systems. The Namibian Ministry of Wellness and Social Providers acknowledged this when they released the National eHealth Approach for 2012-2025 on 3 December 2021. The state recognized that digital health and fitness should be an integral element of its wellbeing priorities and that it will gain the Namibian inhabitants in a way that is ‘ethical, harmless, safe, dependable, equitable and sustainable’.
The Minister of Health and Social Solutions, Honorable Dr Kalumbi Shangula, stated that the fast progression in ICT has produced it feasible for the place to maintain a finger on the pulse utilizing real-time knowledge to permit preparing, source allocation and be certain health security by strengthening sickness monitoring and surveillance. He observed that the eHealth method is a transformative initiative that will enable digital storage of healthcare information as nicely as change the way wellbeing-relevant info is collected, shared, communicated, and analyzed to boost choice-earning and affected person care.
‘It will permit health care staff to capture, accessibility, and share patient information and facts instantly across geographical and health and fitness sector boundaries working with details and communication technologies that are suit for intent securely and reliably. In this way, the eHealth strategy will advise the coordinated implementation of different initiatives to assist the adoption of ICT in boosting overall health treatment shipping and delivery.’ Dr Shangula reported.
Speaking at the same celebration, WHO Representative, Dr Charles Sagoe-Moses, mentioned that this will enrich overall health outcomes by bettering healthcare prognosis, data-centered procedure conclusions, digital therapeutics, clinical trials, self-management of care and individual-centered treatment as effectively as generating extra evidence-based understanding, skills, and competence for specialists to guidance health and fitness care by means of digital transformation. He even further emphasized the important position eHealth performs in obtaining common well being coverage and that the launch of the nationwide tactic on eHealth demonstrates the Namibian authorities commitment to scaling up health and fitness care reach to marginalized populations although reforming the wellness info devices and giving new modes of wellbeing treatment shipping and delivery.
The Namibian National eHealth System for 2021-2025 visualize ‘a wholesome country savoring a higher conventional of dwelling and quality overall health and social products and services welfare enabled by eHealth. This technique is aligned to the WHO Global method on electronic overall health 2020-2025. The progress of the Method was supported by WHO and the other partners. WHO commits to delivering ongoing support for the duration of its implementation.
For Supplemental Information or to Ask for Interviews, Remember to contact:
Mrs Celia Kaunatjike
Tel: +264 () 61 255 121
E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Mary Brantuo
Health care Officer: Kid and Adolescent Health
Tel: +264-61-255121/191
Fax: +264-61-204 6202
E-mail: [email protected]
