Financing nursing care more than doubled in Estonia in 2021
According to materials prepared by Triin Habicht, a renown health economist from Estonia (WHO consultant) and her colleague Kaija Kasekamp (University of Tartu), the Estonian Insurance Fund started financing nursing services in assisted living facilities since 2020...
Now available: Executive summary of the first of the four-part webinar series on Health Financing in India
The webinar series titled Health Financing in India was launched to bring together national and international health systems and financing experts, economists, and researchers to discuss the burning health financing and social health protection issues in the country...
Health System Performance Assessment Framework in Estonia as part of Structural Reforms
Since 2017, the European Commission has provided expertise to help design over 1000 reform projects in 27 Member States through the Structural Reform Support Programme. As of 2021, the Technical Support Instrument (TSI), its successor, continues to support reforms...
International Partnership Recommendations for Health Sector Reforms in Uzbekistan
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has published a 2021 report titled “Reforming healthcare in Uzbekistan: what role for the international community?” available in English, Uzbek and Russian languages here This report examines the state of the...
Kazakhstan assessed the status of Mandatory Social Health Insurance reform
On September 7, 2021, a regular meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Healthcare was held in Kazakhstan. The meeting was attended by the Minister of Healthcare Alexey Tsoy (on the photo), his First Vice-minister Marat Shoranov, Vice-Minister Azhar Giniyat, as well...
Nigeria receives four million COVID-19 vaccine doses
In March, Nigeria received about 4 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, shipped via the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO. The arrival of the vaccines marked a historic step towards the goal to ensure equitable distribution...
Nigeria records another milestone, launches second phase of COVID-19 vaccination
On August 16, 2021, Nigeria launched the second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign; a continuous effort towards curbing the spread of the disease in the country. At a symbolic event to mark the second phase at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Abuja,...
Malaysia’s government seeks $11 billion more in Covid fund
Malaysia’s government plans to increase funds for Covid-19 support measures and raise the country’s statutory debt ceiling. The government considers adding 45 billion Malaysian ringgit ($10.8 billion) to the Covid-19 fund in order to support businesses...
Covid-19: Ten million Malaysians to receive financial aid
Malaysia allocates RM3.1 billion for implementing Covid-19 special assistance (BKC), aiming to reduce the impacts of COVID-19, starting from September 6. BKC provides to 4.4 million households that include 1.1 million single senior citizens and 4.5 million single...
Smaller firms receives COVID wage subsidy in New Zealand
New Zealand paid over $876 million for the Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme so far to support more than a quarter of the country's employees affected by COVID-19. Of the 781,364 jobs are covered under the scheme, 14 percent were for self-employed workers....
Philippines provides cash aid to COVID-infected employees
In the Philippines, workers who had been infected with COVID-19 can now apply for financial support to the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) through a courier service. This benefit covers both sickness and death due to COVID-19. The COVID-19 has been added into...
NIGER: Creation of the Institut National d’Assistance Médicale (INAM)
Extract from the Council of Ministers held this Wednesday, September 23, 2021 under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic of Niger, SEM Mohamed BAZOUM. The Council of Ministers has adopted a draft decree creating a social public establishment called the...
What Nigeria must do to achieve universal health coverage (UHC)
At a stakeholders meeting to deliberate on ways to strengthen community systems towards achieving UHC, the consensus was that Nigeria must improve on its health sector financing if the country is to meet the UHC target by 2030. The president of the Nigerian medical...
Nigeria rolls out 10-year universal health coverage (UHC) plan
In 2020, the Nigerian government started rolling out innovative strategies to optimise services at primary healthcare centres (PHCs) across the country as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic and possible situations of public emergency. The strategies are...
Information workshop on the PNPS and the PS Code for Members of Parliament
Event Time : 27 Sep 2021 7:00 am to 28 Sep 2021 3:34 pmTimezone: UTC+02:00Event is Conference : No