HSA Starts Training Workshops To Improve Health System
By: Omed Hajjana
Islamabad: Health Services Academy Islamabad (HSA) has started training workshops for management professionals to improve health system of Pakistan.
They started workshops in collaboration with GOPA German organization KFW and GIZ has started training workshops for management officials to improve the health system of Pakistan, a consortium including KFW, GIZ, GOPA Worldwide Consultants through their knowledge partner, the(HSA), has partnered with health departments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on a project called “Self-Empowerment of Women” (SEW).
Renowned National and International Health Experts stressed that the health practitioners from Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to strengthen their provincial health departments with complete need of skilled health managers for provision of standard public healthcare potential to the public which are not possible without continuity of management of education, and information to refresher courses and training.
Experts were addressing at the conclusion ceremony of a four-day training workshop, attended by approximately 20 senior health practitioners from different public health programs of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health departments at (HSA), they said public-sector healthcare providers and managers need trainings on the pattern of private sector to deliver quality healthcare services to masses and improve the standard of public health facilities.
Prof. Shahzad Ali Khan, Vice Chancellor HSA said on the concluding session of 4-day training that capacity building towards leaderships and management skills development is very mandatory for our healthcare specialists and senior health officials so that they can easily deliver quality and standard public healthcare services to the masses.
“This enthusiastic project is a wonderful initiative aimed at empowering unemployed women from low-income communities in Punjab and KP. Project’s goal is to enable them to engage in profitable and free- independent entrepreneurial activities within the private health sector”, he added.
He said that the SEW project spans over 36 months and includes a range of activities, with a special focus on developing the management and leadership capacities of Project Executing Departments (PEDs).
Prof. Shahzad Ali Khan added that HSA strongly believes that strengthening the management skills of the public health sector and their officials is crucial for boosting the delivery of quality healthcare services all over Pakistan.
He added that this training workshop course aimed to engage the participants with essential public health information and knowledge, skills that would positively assist the overall health system strengthening the quality of public healthcare services provided by Clinic Operators (COs) in the SEW Project”, he maintained.Health Body Calls for appointments at PIMS
He informed the participants that HSA is confident that this training program will significantly improve the management of public healthcare services.Director of HSA Dr. Mubashir said trainees who are senior health managers in the health departments in KP and Punjab, who were nominated by their respective department, traveled all the way to come to Capital in-person for four days and were trained by local and international experts from Pakistan as well as United States, Germany and other countries in leadership and management skills.The workshop program also devoted the availability of experts from DHO Punjab, KFW and GOPA Worldwide Consultants including Dr. Masuma M. Zaidi Senior, Sector Specialist-Health KFW Jim C Myers Team Leader SEW-GOPA and Dr. Zafar Khan.
