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Background

The Public Health Sector of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan has a major responsibility in providing basic health services; preventing the spread of diseases; ensuring healthy and safe environment; ensuring safe products, healthy eating habits and safe foods; providing a safe and secure environment for maternal and child health; and also encouraging greater participation of consumer protection organisations and specific patient groups in the provision of health services.

FATA faces many challenges; a shortage of funding and little guidance for health service providers in the public and the private sectors, a lack of systematic quality assurance, the absence of a social insurance mechanism, a dearth of qualified health staff, technicians and professionals, and a high cost to provide all these services.

The persistence of these deficiencies affects the population of FATA and pushes people, especially the women, into dire health problems.

To provide access to the basic health services of appropriate quality to the population of FATA and to find sustainable solutions to health problems caused by infectious and chronic diseases in the country, the FATA authorities collaborates with the Federal Government of Germany in developing their capacities through the FATA Basic Health Programme.

Objective

Improve the capacity of the basic health care in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan to provide effective, efficient and financially viable health care services to its people.

Approach

FATA Basic Health Programme aims to improve the health system through activities that strengthen the FATA health care funding, infrastructure development, human resources development and management, and the monitoring of information, education and communication for health awareness. The programme consists of five main components:

1. Tuberculosis Control Programme
2. Maternal and Child Health
3. Mobile Health Care
4. Emergency Care
5. Refurbishment and Renovation of Health facilities

 

The FATA Secretariat coordinate the overall programme through a the Health Sector Reform Unit (HSRU) with support by AGEG consultants.

Partners

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Secretariat of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

• The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
• KfW Development Bank
• AGEG Consultants eG