Stakeholders urge infrastructural upgrade for health facility monitoring agency

By Chioma Obinna

Stakeholders in the health sector have called for an action plan to address the staffing and infrastructural challenges facing the Lagos State Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency, HEFAMAA.

At a capacity strengthening workshop organised by PharmAccess Foundation Nigeria in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation, IFC, the stakeholders also called for outsourcing of operational functions of HEFAMAA to private entities for effectiveness.

They stressed the need for the adoption of SafeCare as the quality improvement methodology for implementation of the scheme.

In his keynote address, Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Primary HealthCare, Dr Olufemi Onanuga, who explained that HEFAMAA was established by Health Sector Reform Law (HSRL) 2006 to regulate and improve the quality of health care delivery in Lagos, stressed the need for its repositioning.

Onanuga charged  participants to articulate recommendations on strengthening HEFAMAA’s capacity even as he pledged the state government’s support for the agency’s activities.

Also speaking,  Country Director of PharmAccess Foundation Nigeria, Ms. Njide Ndili, who said that the workshop was an important step to properly align the agency and all the relevant stakeholders towards its objectives, noted that there was need to properly empower the agency to regulate the healthcare sector in Lagos State ahead of the flag off of the mandatory health insurance scheme in the state. “We are delighted that we can support this process.”

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