The authority recognized healt...

The authority recognized health institutions that maintained and provided services at a better level in the 2017 fiscal year.

June/ 10/2017  A.D.

Addis Ababa City Administration Food and Drug Authority held a joint discussion on the implementation of health institution standards nationwide in the 2017 fiscal year and recognized institutions that achieved better results in implementing the standards.

The recognition forum was attended by senior leaders from the Ministry of Health, the Mayor's Office, the Addis Ababa City Council, the Addis Ababa Health Bureau, and the Ethiopian Food and Drug Authority.

The General Manager of the Authority, Mrs. Mulu Imebet Tadesse, in her speech, mentioned that there are more than 3000 health institutions in the city level and that the authority has been able to strengthen its regulatory work to ensure that the services provided are based on standards and create model institutions. She explained that this is a platform designed to stimulate institutions that are below standard and improve themselves so that they can maintain their effectiveness by providing knowledge and encouragement. She also explained that the authority will work to update the qualification and regulatory system with technology in the coming year so that the community can receive quality services. She asked stakeholders and service providers to fulfill their responsibilities for this.

Opening the forum, State Advisor to the Minister of Health, Ms. Samira Sultan, stated that the country has done a lot of work in the field of providing quality and safe food and health services to the public by issuing more than 70 standards and approving application guidelines. She urged the institutions that are working to provide quality services to the public to continue to strengthen the maturity level three that has been initiated as a country, to update the regulatory system with technology, to continue strengthening self-regulation of institutions, and to properly utilize the database that has been launched to make health service information easily available to the public, and to coordinate stakeholders. She also urged private health institutions to provide quality and safe services in accordance with the standards.

The Health Institutions Guidelines, Health Institutions 2017 Fiscal Year Inspection Report, and the Health Institutions Data Entry Database were presented by the directors of the institutions for discussion.

A summary proposal was given at the forum, and it was pointed out that the inspection office should update and strengthen the inspection and help the institutions fill the gaps, and that the owners of health institutions should be helpful in maintaining standards to ensure the health of the community, and that various stakeholders should play their irreplaceable role in providing quality services to the community in coordination.

Finally, the institutions that have achieved better results in standard performance were given knowledge and encouragement to continue their effectiveness and to create inspiration for other institutions.