Health System Strengthening Project (HSSP) Zone-II of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Southern Districts)
Main Outputs: In collaboration with Health Department Government of KPK, PEI carried out the Health Strengthening Program to improve the condition of health facilities through the province. The Health System Support Program is being run with the objective of ‘Betterment of health service delivery at grass root level, easy access made affordable with improved medical service standards for the poor through ensuring health facilities are functioning efficiently in collaboration with government and other partners by strengthening the capacity of these health facilities through identification and bridging the existing gaps’. Under the program needs assessment of 115 health facilities was carried out throughout the province, out of these 74 were selected for implementation of the HSSP. Details needs assessment was carried out in terms of infrastructure requirement, equipment and supplies, capacity of staff and administrative capabilities. PEI provided support to improve health service delivery in 74 of these health facilities spread in 6 districts of the Zone – II.
Health Services Providers Capacity Building Trainings
33 different trainings have been conducted for Health Services Providers in three provinces on rational use of provided medical and surgical supplies. These trainings also include other topics like 1. Health hygiene improved by provision of hygiene kits and training Prevention of infectious diseases 2. MNCH training, CDD (Control of Diarrheal Diseases) 3. CDC (Communicable Disease Control) 4. Storing and record keeping etc. These trainings enable Doctors and paramedics to refresh their knowledge and enhance their capacities.
Public Health Awareness Campaigns and Community Mobilization
236 Health Management Committees (HMC) were formed in the four districts of KP, oriented on the objectives of the PEI health program and strengthened through appropriate institutional trainings apart from sensitization on PEI interventions viz. health and hygiene issues, availability & utility of the services in health facilities, encouraging EPI coverage, improvement of referral system, feedback and helping in resolution of conflicts among the health services providers and the beneficiaries. The participatory process is designed to ensure the appropriate mobilization and involvement of local communities and their institutions to develop a common vision and undertake collective action based on that. These committees have been strengthened through institutional trainings, fully engaged in PEI programme and part of the process from planning to management, including monitoring and evaluation. PEI expert community development officers and social mobilizers have been facilitating these COs in the identification, implementation, management, operation & maintenance of health facilities so far strengthened by PEI.
Details of Health facilities supported
- EDO Health Bannu
- DHQ Hosp Bannu
- Khalifa Gul Nawaz Teaching Hospital
- DHQ Hospital Bannu
- KGN Bannu
- DHQ Bannu
- DHQ Hosp DI Khan
- EDO Health DIKhan
- DHQ Hosp DIKhan
- DHQ DIK
- DHQ Dera Ismail khan
- MMMH DIK
- DHQ Hospital DIKhan
- MMM Teaching Hospital DIKhan
- THQ Kulachi DIK
- CH Paniala DIK
- THQ Hosp Thall
- DHQ Hosp Hangu
- DHQ Hangu
- THQ Thall Hangu
- DHQ Hospital Hangu.
- THQ Hangu
- DHQ Karak
- THQ Hospital Banda David shah Karak
- DHQ Hosp Kohat
- DHQ Kohat
- DHO Kohat
- Civil Hospital (CH) Shakardara Kohat
- Women & Children Hospital Kohat
- EDO Health Lakki Marwat
- DHQ Hosp Lakki Marwat
- DHQ Lakki Marwat
- City Hospital Lakki Marwat
- City Hospital Lakki Marwat
- DHO Lakki
- CH Sarai Naurang Lakki
- EDO Health Tank
- DHQ Hosp Tank
- DHQ Tank
- EDO Tank
- DHQ Hospital Tank,
- DHO Tank
- Mission Tank