The Health Ministry will focus on providing people-centred quality and timely health services for the fiscal year 2019-2020. Most of the services provided will be based on demand-driven where a lot of outreach services will be provided in the communities.
This is one of the many targets the health ministry has set for this fiscal year’s Annual Performance Agreement that was signed today. The ministry has a budget of Nu 2.17bn to meet the Annual Performance Agreement.
Major activities of the ministry include accelerating mother and child health services, expanding and strengthening medical services, increasing the coverage of traditional medicines, strengthening health infrastructure and enhancing access to quality medicines and health care technologies.
For this, the ministry has targeted to complete the plan and design of the 500 bedded multi-disciplinary super-speciality hospital by May next year and four satellite clinics in Thimphu by December next year.
Health Minister Dechen Wangmo mentioned that the success indicators of the Annual Performance Targets have been aligned with demand-driven.
And for this, the ministry will focus on refractive errors where school-going children will be screened for refractive errors and will be provided with eyeglasses. The programme will target elderly people as well.
