{"id":202060,"date":"2006-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=202060"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:17:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:17:40","slug":"auto-insert-202060","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-202060\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible consequences on health sector in the OPT of reduction of support for public services – WHO report on World Health Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Possible consequences on the health sector due to the reduction of<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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1. SCENARIO<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Expected scenario in case of donors cutting budgetary support to the PA and Israeli suspension of VAT transfer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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  •  MoH acute financial crisis, salaries will not be paid to a certain proportion of MoH staff, and medical supply will be in shortage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    •  Rapid decline of the public health system towards a possible collapse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      •  Shift of control and management of health service system away from the public sector to NGOs, UN system and the private sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        • No access -or limited access- to preventive programs and curative services for an important part of the population, particularly for the poor (1,564,137, 43% of total population)<\/span>1<\/sup><\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          2. CONSEQUENCES ON HEALTH AND THE HEALTH SYSTEM<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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          A WHO analytical framework for health priorities has been used, to analyze the possible consequences of the described scenario<\/span>2<\/sup><\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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          A. CONSEQUENCES ON THE HEALTH SYSTEM<\/p><\/div>\n

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          1. Governance<\/strong><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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          – Paralysis of the MoH, or an MoH less capable of developing health policy, regulatory and coordination related functions.<\/p><\/div>\n

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          – Increased fragmentation of the health system resulting from lack of homogeneity of standards and protocols, which will produce inequities in the access to health services.<\/p><\/div>\n

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          2. Health care financing<\/strong><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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          – Lack or decreased amount of funds<\/span>3 <\/sup><\/span>to cover MoH needs, disruption or reduced capacity in public health financing.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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          – Salaries of the civil servants (57% of all health workers)<\/span>4 <\/sup><\/span>not paid or increased difficulties in paying them<\/span>5<\/sup><\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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          – Large absenteeism among public sector health staff, increased drain of MoH professionals to NGO and private sector.<\/p><\/div>\n

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          – Severe shortage of drugs and medical supplies <\/span>6<\/sup><\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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          – Increased proportion of health financing through user charges, as a consequence of increased use of private providers.<\/p><\/div>\n

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          3. Resource generation<\/strong><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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          – Training and capacity building activities suspended.<\/p><\/div>\n

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          – Maintenance, rehabilitation and development of health facility network equipment and infrastructure suspended.<\/p><\/div>\n

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          4. Service provision<\/strong><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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          – Breakdown of more than half of total PHC centers (56.5% of all PHC facilities are MoH run), due to irregular or non-attendance of health staff, and to lack of drugs and supply.<\/p><\/div>\n

          \n\t\t\t\t• Drastic reduction of service availability and accessibility\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
          \n\t\t\t\t• Efficiency and quality compromised\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
          \n\t\t\t\t• Equity compromised\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
          \n\t\t\t\t• Reduced sustainability\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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          B. CONSEQUENCES ON THE HEALTH PROGRAMMES<\/p><\/div>\n

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          1. Preventive and promotive programs<\/strong><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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          413 PHC centers (357 in the WB and 56 in Gaza) and 140 to 252 maternal and child health clinics (208 in WB and 44 in Gaza) will be affected, leading to an important or drastic reduction of their service provision capacity towards their closure.<\/p><\/div>\n

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          Programs likely to be affected (numbers refer to 2004 data):<\/p><\/div>\n

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          \n\t\t\t\t• Immunization: 65,796 children (35% of the children in Gaza and 85% of the children in the WB) were immunized in the MoH facilities.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
          \n\t\t\t\t• Supplementation: 63,736 children (72.8% and 47.9% of the children 3 weeks -12 months in the WB and Gaza respectively) received Vitamin A and D supplementation.<\/span>7<\/sup><\/span> In addition, 79,037 pregnant women (78.9% of all pregnant women in the WB and 71.8% in Gaza) received iron supplements<\/span>8<\/sup><\/span>.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
          \n\t\t\t\t• Growth monitoring: 65,796 children receive monitoring.<\/span>9<\/sup><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
          \n\t\t\t\t• Antenatal and postnatal services: services received by 90,409 women (96.5% of all pregnant women) and 31,263 (33.5% of all pregnant women) respectively, received ante-natal and post-natal care mainly through the MoH MCH centers<\/span>10<\/sup><\/span>.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
          \n\t\t\t\t• Delivery services: 59,731 deliveries (55.2% of total deliveries) occurred in MoH hospitals and clinics in 2004.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
          \n\t\t\t\t• Health education and promotion\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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          2. Curative and rehabilitative programs<\/strong><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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          Reduction or closure of secondary and tertiary level curative and rehabilitation care in MoH hospitals.<\/p><\/div>\n

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          Services likely to be affected:<\/p><\/div>\n

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          \n\t\t\t\t• Maternity: 47% of maternity beds are located in MoH hospitals. In 8 (over 15) districts, 100% of maternity facilities are from MoH.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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          \n\t\t\t\t• General hospitals: 61% of general hospital beds are located in MoH hospitals (66% of internal medicine beds, 71.3% of pediatric beds and 58% of the surgical beds are located in MoH hospitals)<\/span>11<\/sup><\/span>. No general hospital beds are present in 5 districts.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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          \n\t\t\t\t• Other hospital services<\/span>12<\/sup><\/span>:<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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