CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, March 6 (PIA) — Xavier University hosts the first Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) regional round-table discussion on health market renovations.
Oscar F. Picazo, PIDS Senior Research Consultant said these innovations will help address gaps in public health and aid the government in achieving the Millennium Development (MDG) targets through public-private approaches.
Recent Health Market Innovations like the Wireless Access for Health, EVAcoh Cooperative Pharmacies, Mother Bless Birthing Clinics, and Xavier University’s Post-Disaster Sanitation Solutions were the highlights in the PIDS round-table discussion on Thursday, March 6.
These sessions are part of PIDS approach in short listing the schemes identified based on the health innovations impact, pro poor orientation, sustainability and innovativeness.
"The project is focused on documenting, analyzing, disseminating and hopefully making linkages between funders and innovators on schemes involving public policies or programs that promotes private participation in health care,” Picazo stressed.
Health Market Innovations is funded by Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation and United Kingdom's Department for International Development, managed by the Center for Health Market Innovation (CID), which in the Philippines is implemented by PIDS starting 2010.
Picazo said health market innovations in the Philippines are quite intensive, and among the notable schemes identified in the first two years of the project are the Generics Pharmacy, National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI), Community Health Information Traffic System (CHITS), Surveillance in Post Extreme Emergencies and Disasters (SPEED) and more.
"We have to think of new ways in doing things. Various schemes in the private sector, public-private partnerships, joint ventures and outsourcing in government indeed take care of the poor,” Picazo noted. (JCV/PIA)//
