Ministry of Health
Mission
Taking qualitative health care to the doorstep of every citizen and inhabitant of Bayelsa State and making the State the hub of excellent medical services thereby also promoting health tourism.
Goals
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Achieve universal social health care insurance
- Achieve State-wide Medical Emergency Services coverage
- Improve Private-Public Partnership in health care delivery
- Encourage Medical tourism by establishing a centre of medical excellence in the state.
- Achieve local production of drugs and medical consumables
- Promote training of health care personnel
- Promote effective and efficient primary health care thereby enhancing accessibility of medical care in the rural areas
Policy
The state Ministry of Health will collaborate with the Federal Ministry of Health and other health agencies like WHO, UNICEF, etc will institute policies to address:
- Bayelsa Medicare Scheme(BMS)
- Bayelsa State Medical Emergency Service Scheme
- Public-Private Partnership in Health care
- Private Medical Practice
- Private Pharmaceutical Practice.
- Medical treatment abroad.
- Primary Health Care
- Secondary health Care
- Tertiary Health care
- Immunization
- Child and maternal health
- Care for the elderly
- Health Personnel management and training
Guidelines
The state ministry of health will issue guidelines on the following:
- Consent for medical treatment
- Deceased patients and release of assets
- Hospital discharge
- Drug and alcohol consumption and treatment
- Procurement of goods and services in the hospital
- Employment
- Service charges
- Workplace safety
- Grievance resolution
- Staff reward and punishment
- HIV testing, treatment, care and support
- Home and community-based care and support for PLWA
- Information disclosure.
- Mental health
- Pharmaceutical prescription and access
- Record management and access
- Hospital waste management.