Bureaucracy, knowledge gaps hindering access to health fund – Epidemiologist

A elder wellness authoritative successful Kano State has said that bureaucracy, cognition gaps among stakeholders, and anemic systems are slowing entree to wellness exigency preparedness funds successful the state.

The State Epidemiologist, Dr Suleiman Illiyasu, made this known during a cardinal informant interrogation conducted nether a three-day capstone task by Connected Development done its Follow The Money initiative.

He explained that though funds nether the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) are disposable astatine the nationalist level, accessing and afloat utilising them astatine the authorities level remains a large situation owed to administrative bottlenecks and constricted method capacity.

“Definitely, cognition gaps among stakeholders are 1 of the cardinal problems. We request to span the gaps done grooming and retraining of radical astatine each levels,” Dr Illiyasu said.

He added that mediocre coordination and a deficiency of regular engagement among implementing actors besides impact the creaseless implementation of wellness financing programmes.

“Even accessing and utilising the wealth is precise important. If radical are good trained and recognize the system, it becomes easier to entree and usage the funds,” helium explained.

Illiyasu besides called for stronger monitoring systems and integer tracking tools to amended transparency and accountability successful wellness money management.

“We request dashboards and...