Health Recovery Programme, KPK

Health Recovery Programme, KPK

Project Name

Revitalization and Capacity Building of Flood Affected Primary Health Care Facilities in Nowshera and Charsadda Districts, KPK Province, Pakistan

Introduction

CAMP has been an active member of Health Clusters at District, Provincial and National levels from the outset of the emergency and for previous emergencies.  With the transition to the Recovery Phase of the 2010 Flood Emergency, CAMP has been active participants in health clusters for continuing emergencies and in the KPK Provincial Sectoral Early Recovery Working Group for Health and Nutrition.  

Recently CAMP has launched a health recovery project started from July, 2011.Under this project CAMP will revitalize eight health facilities four each in district Charsadda and district Nowshera. Initially CAMP technical team conducted need assessment of eight health facilities to be revitalised. To avoid duplication of activities and wastage of resources, five out of eight health facilities were replaced after having a series of coordination meetings with EDOs and PDMA. 

These above eight facilities are geographically well distributed within the target area. The total catchment population is difficult to determine but, based on the 1998 census report and figures provided by the EDOs-Health for the two districts, has been estimated at 200,000.  This is the estimated population of the eight Union Councils served by these facilities and the wider population of the area served by attached health workers. The floods and a volatile security situation have resulted in fear and uncertainty, and living conditions are extremely difficult: very limited food and water supplies and public services either badly fragmented or non-existent.

Table showing type of health facilities and names of Union council

 

 

Project Goal

To improve the health status of the target population of approximately 200.000 people and strengthen capacity within the health sector in the target area

Timeframe

The project will run for 12 months from a start date in July 2011

Project Objectives

Within the target area:

1. To revitalize eight government PHC facilities
2. To provide training for government health workers permanently attached to these facilities, with a focus on improving maternal and child health care services
3. To improve key health indicators within the catchment population 

Proposed Activities

• Rebuild/repair and redecorate the eight target health facilities.
• Provide essential clinical equipment and furniture for the eight target health facilities.
• Provide a structured training program for the 328 government health workers permanently attached to these facilities. The training will focus on improving maternal and child health services, with the curriculum and schedule developed and agreed in consultation with the responsible agencies (PPIU and PHSA) and the two EDOs-Health. A draft program has already been developed.
• Establish robust data collection, monitoring and reporting systems.
• Liaise closely with the Health Committees in each of the target union councils, to ensure local community ownership of the project and their involvement in its monitoring and evaluation.

Project Outputs

• Eight health facilities will be refurbished and equipped to Ministry of Health standards.
• 328 health workers attached to these facilities will be trained to an enhanced level over a nine-month period for a total of 90 hour each.