AFR/RC42/R6: Reorientation and restructuring of hospitals based on primary health care in Africa
The Regional Committee,
Having examined document AFR/RC42/6 on the reorientation and restructuring of hospitals based on primary health care submitted by the Regional Director;
Noting the unsatisfactory conditions prevailing in most hospitals of the African Region;
Recognizing the serious challenges that African hospitals have to cope with in order to contribute more effectively to the attainment of health for all Africans;
Recalling the unanimous decision of Member States to accelerate the implementation of primary health care in the Region in accordance with the provisions of the African Health Development Framework approved in Lusaka in 1985;
1. CONGRATULATES the Regional Director on his report;
2. APPROVES the proposed options and approaches contained in document AFR/RC42/6, aimed at assisting the countries of the Region in reviewing the role of hospitals in implementing primary health care;
3. URGES Member States:
(i) to review the roles, functions, organization and management of their hospitals in consonance with the suggested orientations;
(ii) to adopt legislative texts to redefine the mission of hospitals, their institutional relations with other health structures and institutions, as with health-related sectors and the communities;
(iii) to strengthen the training of hospital personnel in primary health care;
(iv) to strengthen the technical, administrative and logistic capacities of hospitals as well as those of peripheral institutions in conformity with the new functions of the hospital.
4. REQUESTS the Regional Director:
(i) to pursue research efforts in this field;
(ii) to give all necessary technical and financial support to countries' initiatives;
(iii) to report on progress made to the forty-third session of the Regional Committee.
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