On April 15, Save the Children held an information and advocacy workshop on the need to improve access to healthcare for pregnant women and children aged 0 to 5.
This workshop follows on from a project to improve maternal and child health (PASMI) implemented in the Cascades health region. This initiative developed by Save the Children international Burkina in partnership with Glaxo Smith Kline during the 2019-2020 period, specifically wanted to contribute to strengthening the healthcare system through improving the availability of 25 tracer drugs in peripheral health facilities in the said region. As with all studies on free health care, the PASMI project highlighted a number of challenges, including the lack of financial resources allocated to free health care.
The workshop resulted in a strong recommendation to Burkina Faso’s public authorities: the long-term integration of the free health care policy into the law on the Universal Health Insurance Scheme.
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