The Ogun Government has set a target to improve the implementation status of its Health Sector Annual Operational Plan (AOP) for 2022 to 80 per cent.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, disclosed this at the Dissemination Meeting of the 2022 Annual Operation Plan on Tuesday in Abeokuta.
She expressed her optimism that the implementation status of the new AOP would improve from 50.2 per cent to 80 per cent, “which will help deliver on the promises of government for the sector’’.
Represented by the Coordinating Director, Ministry of Health, Dr. Festus Soyinka, the commissioner said the Plan was aimed at improving the connection between policy-making, planning, and budgeting allocation to facilitate better implementation of health policies.
She described it as an important vehicle towards actualising the present administration’s vision for the health sector.
“The AOP was developed through a rigorous exercise that engaged key stakeholders in the state health sector at a five-day workshop in the fourth quarter of the year 2021.
“It is a roadmap that contains objectives and activities aligned with State Strategic Health Development Plan 2018 – 2022 and Mid Term Sector Strategy document of the state.
“This succinctly captures the vision of the Prince Dapo Abiodun led government to provide the residents of Ogun state with quality, affordable and accessible health care,” she said.
The commissioner called on all the heads of agencies, directors, unit heads, and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) officers to work hard to ensure successful implementation of the carefully developed plan, saying the citizens of the state would be the better for it.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Health, Dr. Tayo Lawal, charged the monitoring and evaluation officers to keep policy makers in the sector abreast of the progress being made with the AOP.
He called on the leaders in MDAs to always refer to the plan for strategic decisions.
In his welcome address, the Director, Planning, Research and Statistics, Ministry of Health, Dr. Kayode Kushimo, said the AOP was the last plan to be developed from the Ogun State Strategic Health Development Plan II, 2018-2022.
He appreciated the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for its support towards the realisation of the plan. (NAN)
