THE government has challenged the private health sector to join hands with it in its efforts to employ only qualified people by embarking on an exercise to assess academic certificates to unearth those without required qualifications in the area.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry
of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elders and Children, Dr Mpoki
Ulisubisya, said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the sector should also
consider employing local medical doctors first.
“The sector should only employ foreign
experts for a job post after being assured that there is no local expert
to fill it,” said the Permanent Secretary while opening the Association
of Private Health Facilities in Tanzania (APHFTA) 17th Annual General
Meeting.
The two-day meeting goes under the
theme, “The Private Health Sector’s Role in Universal Health Coverage’
brings together more than 300 healthcare professionals from all over the
country.
Dr Ulisubisya, who was the guest of
honour at the event, said the district and regional health authorities
will now work closely with APHFTA through the association’s zonal
coordinators towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
“My ministry is committed to working
with APHFTA in several committees at national level. The representation
of private health sector by the association is vital in tapping the
resources and potentials available in the sector to further develop our
healthcare systems,” he observed.
Dr Ulisubisya said human resources for
health largely some cadres were scarce in the market pointing out the
cadres as pharmaceutical assistants, pharmaceutical technicians,
laboratory assistants and technologists.
“The government will make more efforts
to ensure our colleges both public and private are producing more
graduates in those faculties to address the shortage,” he said.
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