Annual Review Report for Health Sector 2014 - 2015

This Annual Report comes in the final year of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Health Sector Strategic Plan (2011 – 2016). It is, therefore, a good time to start reflecting on the overall achievements made under the ending HSSP in order to inform the next Health Sector Strategic Plan for the Country. Consequently, the presentations in this report are a mixture of the 2014/2015 Fiscal Year performance and the trend in health outcomes over the last five years. The theme for this year’s Review meeting is “Population Growth: Are We Doing Enough?” and it has been carefully chosen to highlight the critical challenge the country is experiencing with growing population. The meeting will specifically focus on what more can be done to sow down further population growth.

The Health Sector has made considerable progress in the last five years with significant reductions in prevalence of common causes to morbidity and mortality. Primarily, the Sector has increased access to health services with each person having more than one visit per year to a health facility, on average. Overall, performance in the health sector as measured by health outcomes has been mixed. For example, the OPD Utilization Rate was at 1,102 visits per 1,000 people in the population. In total, there were 17, 960, 640 OPD attendances, 940, 546 hospital admissions and 22, 305 in patient deaths. Maternal, neonatal and child health, which are key in managing population growth, remain a priority for the Ministry.