Promoting access to high quality primary health care services in Sudan
Ano de publicação: 2012
Sudan health system is based on the district health system approach, which emphasizes
the principles of primary health care (PHC). Nevertheless, the decentralization of the
public sector resulted in more deterioration of the PHC system particularly in rural and
peripheral areas due to lack of financial resources and managerial capacities. The local
health system act gave the responsibility of management of PHC level to the localities
while, this wasn’t accompanied by ensuring availability of sufficient financing resources to
localities to run this function. This condition is worsened by the focus of government
spending on hospitals leading to an unbalanced health system. For instance, 36% of the
total health expenditure goes to the secondary and tertiary hospitals. Moreover, over 90%
of the government health expenditure is directed to the secondary and tertiary hospitals.