Strategic Health Plan 2030 will strengthen primary care and encourages participation of civil society in oversight
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Strategic Health Plan 2030 (Plandes 2030) raises the strengthening la Primary Care and participación of the artists and the civil society in the processes of management, monitoring y evaluation of the execution of the plan.
The Plandes 2030 was presented by the Ministry of Public Health to the social, community and academic sectors in a meeting organized with the Alliance for the Right to Health (ADESA) and the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC). During the activity, Vice Minister Miguel Rodríguez Viñas said that “it is the strategic agenda of the health sector of the Dominican Republic, the concerted vision and platform of strategies, structuring projects and quick victories for the sustainable development of the National Health System until the year 2030.”
The activity included a panel made up of Vice Minister Rodríguez Viñas; and the senior advisors of Plandes 2023, Reinaldo Peguero, Cecilia Buchanan and Marcela Mirabal, who explained in detail the Plan's initiatives, its methodology and scope. Manuel Robles and Rosa Abreu also worked on the document.
Plandes 2030 is based on four pillars consistent with the National Development Survey (END), which are: Social Inclusion, which prioritizes networks and services; health economics and financing; environment, which is related to risks, planning and adaptation to climate change, and finally governability, governance and public-private-community articulation. From these pillars, 35 projects emerge that will be executed by various strategic actors and 70% have financing.
Some of the projects will include the gradual intervention of 404 centers, which is equivalent to 30% of the total of 1,348 nationally, and the implementation of the traffic accident risk control program will be strengthened.
Alba Reyes, coordinator of the Alliance for the Right to Health -ADESA -, when speaking a few words during the socialization event of the 2030 Strategic Plan, indicated that this organization, since its founding in 2017, has developed five strategic axes of work and a proposal for a political and social pact for the right to health so that all sectors contribute to the improvement of the Dominican health system so that fundamental rights, access to quality health and universal coverage are guaranteed.
Reyes said that one of ADESA's demands is that the Ministry of Public Health focus on strategic planning that would serve as a guide and direction for where the health system should go, “and ADESA has been an important part of that process since the discussion table designed by the Ministry,” he specified.
La vice-rector of Administration and Finance of INTEC, Alliet Ortega, representing the rector Julio Sánchez Maríñez, stated that health, as well as education, are fundamental axes for the development of the nation, “that is why INTEC celebrates that we have a roadmap for the health sector, in the next eight years. That plan will set the tone to consolidate the achievements made and face the challenges to come,” he said.
During the activity, the dean of the Health Sciences Area, Miguel Robiou, was present on behalf of INTEC; and the research professor Pedro Luis Castellanos. In addition, Felipe Fontini and Adalberto Grullón, from Adesa, attended.
The objectives of the 2030 Strategic Plan
The strategic objective of social inclusion, networks and services aims to increase access to health for the entire population, especially vulnerable groups, through better living conditions, networks with a strengthened first level of care and inclusive, comprehensive, quality and humanized, with human resources with new skills and capabilities.
Among the lines of action contemplated to achieve this objective, the plan highlights the improvement of access to health by raising living conditions and the quality of services; the prioritization of promotion and prevention in interventions; the comprehensive strengthening of the First Level of Care; the transformation of human resources in health, technology and supply and comprehensive information management.
The second strategic objective focused on governability, governance and public, private and community articulation, with which it is intended to strengthen the governability and the concurrence of the vision and action of the health sector and system by strengthening the articulation, effectiveness, transparency and representativeness, with the decisive participation and involvement of all sectors and citizens.
The third strategic objective concerning the environment, territory, natural-anthropogenic risks and adaptation to climate change has the purpose of strengthening the institutionality of the Ministry of Public Health and its capacity to coordinate with public and private entities related to environmental health, change climate and natural-anthropogenic risks to promote healthy, sustainable and resilient human settlements, municipalities and cities.
The fourth and final strategic objective seeks to promote the collection and contribution of rational financial resources to transform the State of Population Health (ESP) and pay for services, via a management model promoted with the public budget and a basic health plan ( PBS) efficient and consistent with the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and the Life Years of Healthy Life Expectancy (HALYs).