WHO commends Ethiopia’s commitment towards quality health service

Addis Ababa, September 14, 2024 (FBC) – WHO Representative to Ethiopia commended the commitment of Ethiopia towards ensuring quality health services amid of the various public health emergencies and natural disasters in the country.

WHO Representative to Ethiopia, Owen L. Kaluwa said that the health system of Ethiopia is endeavoring to provide quality health services in the country.

The outbreaks of measles and malaria among other public health emergencies as well as landslide and flooding—all of which are impacting on the health system of the country, Kaluwa noted.

Hoverer, the representative said Ethiopia’s stride to realizing the availability of essential health services amidst of these public health emergencies is commendable.

Moreover, Kaluwa emphasized the need to build resilient health system that is capable of withstanding emergencies such as pandemics or natural disasters to ensure sustainable progress towards universal health coverage functions even under stress.

“The Ethiopian health system is really working hard to try to provide quality services. What is critical is that we need to build resilient health system that can withstand the shocks that are caused by various public health emergencies including outbreaks…,” Kaluwa said.

At the same time, the system should be responsive to the specific and unique need of the various segments of the population including the youth and adolescents, he underscored.

Kaluwa also reaffirmed WHO’s commitment to strengthen the health system of Ethiopia through providing guidance, technical support, sharing information, among others that can help to move the process of strengthening the health system, as reported by ENA.

“We have the knowledge base that we can help to bring there to work with other partners, to work with the government to try to strengthen our health system.”

The government of Ethiopia has been carrying out manifold initiatives to strengthen the health sector focusing on enhancing access to healthcare services with remarkable achievements in a number of areas including in the areas of mothers’ and children health, prevention of transmittable and non-transmittable diseases among others.