{"id":2497,"date":"2019-10-05T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T09:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2019-10-05T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T09:28:26","slug":"sops-to-improve-health-service-delivery-in-karonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/sops-to-improve-health-service-delivery-in-karonga\/","title":{"rendered":"SOPs to Improve Health Service Delivery in Karonga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jordan Simeon-Phiri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correspondent <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice Chairperson for Karonga District Council, Councillor Ngasalayumo Mwangonde says the signing of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Proactive Disclosure of Information in the Health Sector is a step in the direction to uphold transparency and accountability in the health sector in district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nkhata giving a brief background of the project. Picture by Jordan Simeon-Phiri<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Mwangonde made the remarks on last week Monday\nat Club Marina during the official signing ceremony of SOPs aimed at empowering\nthe community members to access vital information from duty bearers relating to\nhealth service delivery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is good development to both duty bearers and\nrights holders as there will be sense of responsibility whereby community\nmembers will play watchdog roles at the same time duty bearers will be accountable,\u201d\nMwangonde said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking his turn, Director of Health and Social Services\n(DHSS) for Karonga Dr. Phineas Mfune said the signing of the booklet is an\nopportunity to the people of Karonga to access quality health services and give\nfeedback for improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a commitment for us duty bearers to provide\ninformation so that community members are able to follow how resources are\nbeing used to avoid conflicts that come when there is withholding of\ninformation,\u201d Mfune said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his part, Project Officer at Justice and Peace Desk\nof Karonga Diocese Obert Mkandawire, whose organization facilitated the\nformulation of SOPs, hailed the outgoing District Commissioner Emmanuel\nBulukutu for giving consent to the document two years after its adoption,\nsaying it will enhance citizen participation through accessing of information\nin the health sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAccess to information, such as local health sector budgets,\nhealth service improvement plans, status of service delivery at health facility\nsuch as drug stock levels, council resolutions and district health management\nteam (DHMT) decisions, health service improvement plans, status of service\ndelivery at health facility and district levels such as drug stock levels, is\nvital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When citizens access such information, they are able\nto participate in health decision making at local level. This enhances\ntransparency and accountability and consequently health service delivery is\nimproved,\u201d Mkandawire said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is\nfinancing the Promotion of High Quality Transparent Accountable and Responsive\nHealth Service Delivery project in six traditional authorities (TAs) in Karonga\nand Chitipa districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jordan Simeon-Phiri Correspondent Vice Chairperson for Karonga District Council, Councillor Ngasalayumo Mwangonde says the signing of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Proactive Disclosure of Information in the Health Sector is a step in the direction to uphold transparency and accountability in the health sector in district. Councillor Mwangonde made the remarks on last week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice-and-peace-desk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}