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Health staff in two districts to get performance-based bonuses
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department will give performance-based bonuses to health workers in Kohistan and Lower Dir districts to improve mother and child health, control malnourishment and apply brakes on avoidable mother and child diseases.
The contract of project in this regard was signed by the health department with donors’ representatives here on Thursday. Under the project, the health department employees will be given benefits for showing good performance.
The delayed three-year project is now being implemented for 14 months in Kohistan and Lower Dir, two of the six districts to be covered under the programme to achieve the targets set forth in the health-related millennium development goals of the United Nations.
The health department has also planned a two-day workshop for workers of the respective districts to inform them of the programme. To get the project’s objectives and then award monetary incentives to health workers, a monitoring system has been put in place through partner organisations, the Integrated Health Services Management in Kohistan and MERLIN in Lower Dir.
In 2012, the Multi Donors Trust Fund (MDTF) had agreed to spend Rs16 billion in six districts, but the project couldn’t be implemented due to political interference. The grant has now been reduced to Rs1.5 billion due to wastage of time.
The government wants to create competition among the employees to be able to get cash, trophies and certificates, and improve the health delivery system.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa plans to significantly bring down malnourishment among children from the current 36 per cent, which has been resulting in low immunity and causing deaths due to ailments. The project entitled “Mother Child and Nutrition Services” will cost Rs193 million in Lower Dir and Rs130 million in Kohistan.
The programme will strengthen about 100 health facilities, including basic health units, dispensaries, rural health centres, tehsil headquarters hospital, mother and child centres where repair and refurbishment will be carried out.
For instance, houses will be renovated to ensure that doctors stay there.
There will be a three-layered strategy to gauge performance of the health staff working in the two districts. The district health officers (DHOs) in respective districts and a firm have been tasked the job of monitoring and evaluation besides a project management unit to be based in Peshawar.
Reports from these entities regarding the output of the designated health facilities will be sent to the director general health every three months to award the best performers. About four to six rural health centres in each district would be used as respective hub for the basic health units etc to meet their demands like medicines, etc.
Strengthening of DHO offices and upgradation of infrastructure with uninterrupted supply of medicines, equipment, disinfectants etc and paying recurring cost to the health facilities, are the basic components of the programme.
The health department has devised the process for employment of staff. The programme will also start in Buner, Battagram, Torghar and Dera Ismail Khan districts in due course of time, but its duration will be of one year. The MDTF, which is executing the programme through the World Bank, has also agreed to extend the project subject to its effective implementation.
Health staff in two districts to get performance-based bonuses - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department will give performance-based bonuses to health workers in Kohistan and Lower Dir districts to improve mother and child health, control malnourishment and apply brakes on avoidable mother and child diseases.
The contract of project in this regard was signed by the health department with donors’ representatives here on Thursday. Under the project, the health department employees will be given benefits for showing good performance.
The delayed three-year project is now being implemented for 14 months in Kohistan and Lower Dir, two of the six districts to be covered under the programme to achieve the targets set forth in the health-related millennium development goals of the United Nations.
The health department has also planned a two-day workshop for workers of the respective districts to inform them of the programme. To get the project’s objectives and then award monetary incentives to health workers, a monitoring system has been put in place through partner organisations, the Integrated Health Services Management in Kohistan and MERLIN in Lower Dir.
In 2012, the Multi Donors Trust Fund (MDTF) had agreed to spend Rs16 billion in six districts, but the project couldn’t be implemented due to political interference. The grant has now been reduced to Rs1.5 billion due to wastage of time.
The government wants to create competition among the employees to be able to get cash, trophies and certificates, and improve the health delivery system.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa plans to significantly bring down malnourishment among children from the current 36 per cent, which has been resulting in low immunity and causing deaths due to ailments. The project entitled “Mother Child and Nutrition Services” will cost Rs193 million in Lower Dir and Rs130 million in Kohistan.
The programme will strengthen about 100 health facilities, including basic health units, dispensaries, rural health centres, tehsil headquarters hospital, mother and child centres where repair and refurbishment will be carried out.
For instance, houses will be renovated to ensure that doctors stay there.
There will be a three-layered strategy to gauge performance of the health staff working in the two districts. The district health officers (DHOs) in respective districts and a firm have been tasked the job of monitoring and evaluation besides a project management unit to be based in Peshawar.
Reports from these entities regarding the output of the designated health facilities will be sent to the director general health every three months to award the best performers. About four to six rural health centres in each district would be used as respective hub for the basic health units etc to meet their demands like medicines, etc.
Strengthening of DHO offices and upgradation of infrastructure with uninterrupted supply of medicines, equipment, disinfectants etc and paying recurring cost to the health facilities, are the basic components of the programme.
The health department has devised the process for employment of staff. The programme will also start in Buner, Battagram, Torghar and Dera Ismail Khan districts in due course of time, but its duration will be of one year. The MDTF, which is executing the programme through the World Bank, has also agreed to extend the project subject to its effective implementation.
Health staff in two districts to get performance-based bonuses - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
