SECTOR: HEALTH
Allocation
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Associated SRP Strategic Objective Amount
Allocated
Health
Objective 1: Provide integrated essential health service delivery, surveillance
and medical supplies in priority districts
Objective 2: Strengthen reproductive, maternal, new-born and child health
(RMNCH) interventions, including violence against women
Objective 3: Support community-based health initiatives and sustain the main
pillars and infrastructure of the health system
$13
million
The health sector is currently facing an unprecedented crisis, which has been recently exacerbated
by the financial crisis faced by the MOPHP and banking system overall. It is currently estimated that
about 14.1 million people are in need of health services from ever fewer service providers, with
most health facilities under-resourced and over-burdened. There is a chronic shortage of medical
supplies including for mass casualty management as well as of essential medicine for chronic
diseases. Over 520,000 pregnant women lack access to reproductive health services, whilst two
million million acutely malnourished children and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) are in need
of treatment.
The main provider of humanitarian assistance is the MOPHP. However the MOPHP is facing
escalating challenges in meeting the needs, as a result of the deepening political divisions, conflict
escalation and more recently drastic budget cuts. Over 30 humanitarian partners are supporting the
MOPHP to cope with the additional burden of diseases and excessive conflict mortality.
In order to address the MOPHP and health sector financial crisis the health cluster is seeking to
deliver on four prioritised basic health services and programmes in functioning health facilities (46%
of facilities according to HeRAMS data), with at least one hospital per governorate together with
autonomous hospitals. This support will be coupled with both international and internal advocacy,
as well as technical assistance to the MOPHP in restructuring health financing (including
introduction of national, community and facility-based risk and resource pooling schemes), together
with the strengthening of coordination efforts.
Health Eligible Programme Areas:
Prevention and control of communicable diseases (immunization, and disease
surveillance and outbreak response)
Essential Health Service Package to be delivered at the district level including maternal
and new born health, child health and immunization, nutrition, trauma care, CD and
NCD, health education, MHPSS and rehabilitation of facilities.
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Secondary Hospital Package, especially trauma and obstetric care, and of treatment
medical and surgical emergencies and NCDs.
Sustaining essential medical supply pipelines.