10/07/2026
1. Mental Health 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The Minister of Health and Child Care, Hon. Dr. Douglas Mombeshora, today officially launched the National Health Strategy 2026–2030. With this strategy, the Ministry aims to:
1. Reduce morbidity and mortality due to communicable and non-communicable diseases, as well as mental health conditions.
2. Improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, adolescent and child health and nutrition, with specific targets to reduce the maternal mortality ratio, lower perinatal mortality and increase modern contraceptive prevalence.
3. Increase the availability of medicines and health commodities to ensure that no patient goes without the treatment they need.
4. Increase domestic funding for health to at least 15 percent of total government expenditure and reduce out-of-pocket payments,.
5. Expand the health workforce by creating 32,000 new posts by 2030 to raise the density of health workers towards the recommended standard.
6. Improve infrastructure and equipment, ensuring that every district has a fully equipped hospital and that all health facilities have reliable water and power.
7.Increase digital health coverage by connecting all health facilities to the internet and integrating health information systems.
8. Enhance access to healthcare services, including both primary and specialist care, by expanding health infrastructure and strengthening referral systems.
9.Improve the governance of the sector by strengthening leadership, accountability, and coordination across all levels. This will be achieved by rolling out the Accountability Framework already underway in the public sector, which allocates roles and responsibilities, establishes key performance indicators, implements a performance monitoring system and introduces a rewards and consequences schedule.
