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Ammon News - The Ministry of Health on Sunday launched its 2023-2025 strategy with a focus on creating a fully integrated healthcare system and improving equitable access to diagnostic, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care.

The strategy's eight focus areas align with the Economic Modernization Vision's goals of expanding access to better services for all citizens.

Extending health insurance coverage, bolstering response to crises, and maximizing the ministry's oversight role are also central tenets of the strategy. Other goals include improving digital transformation, information technology, infrastructure, supply, and financial management; improving primary, secondary, and tertiary care services; and improving the efficiency of human resources.

The strategy adopted several primary healthcare programs related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that aim to include new vaccines in the national vaccination program, curb the spread of NCDs, strengthen psychological and reproductive health services, family planning, limit environmental health risks, enhance school health services, and promote healthy social practices.

Over the next three years, the Ministry of Health plans to open new health centers and renovate existing ones, bolstering their emergency services and supplying them with necessary medical equipment.

The strategy calls for the ministry to complete the computerization of its hospitals and health centers, digitize its services, and ensure efficient management of its medical and non-medical stockpiles.

Minister of Health Firas Hawari said the strategy is modern and actionable, and it includes crucial metrics for gauging the quality of performance and the success of reforms in the health system.

He went on to say that this strategy is the first of its kind following the Corona pandemic, and that it adapts to the shifting health landscape in Jordan and around the world in light of factors like the pandemic and the effects of climate change, the evolution of diseases and their risk factors, and new perspectives on health policy.