The chairman of the African Healthcare Federation, Dr Amit
Thakker, has said that increased spending on healthcare in the public and
private sectors across the African continent have resulted in improved health indicators
and life expectancies, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Thakker, a speaker at the Africa Health Exhibition &
Congress noted that the progress of this improvement is extremely slow and
not commensurate with the increase in funding.
Also Thakker pointed out that the private healthcare sector,
as well as non-government organisations
(NGOs) are well placed to help improve healthcare across the continent, and
while there have been Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), stressing, these need
to be stepped up if Africa wants to beat its healthcare challenges.
According to Thakker, these poor outcomes reflect challenges
with governance and leadership, while noting that budget allocations in a
number of African countries are relatively large, but unfortunately
inefficiencies reduce their impact substantially.
“We would have saved twice as many children and women if
governments were efficient,” Thakker declared.
Leader of Deloitte Digital Africa, and leader for Healthcare
and Life Sciences, Valter Adão says “Healthcare spend is often sizeable in
dollar terms but low relative to GDP, like in Nigeria, or reasonably comparable
to European countries but the outcomes are poor, like in South Africa.”
“The deviation from the traditional PPP models is that
governments would not be the recipients, but owners or implementers and perhaps
even the investors into these solutions,” Adão recently told the World Economic
Forum.
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