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COORDINATION, PLANNING AND MONITORING:
Leadership and Coordination: WHO in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and office of Refugee Relief & Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) continues to provide effective leadership and coordination of the health response- ensuring access to essential and life-saving health services and COVID-19 response.
Strategy development and planning: As part of the Joint Response Plan 2022, the health sector reviewed and endorsed 27 projects (estimated at USD 110.8 million) from 40 partners. The JRP launch-initially planned for late February 2022- has now been rescheduled to March 2022 pending review and approval from Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Bangladesh.
Health resources and service availability monitoring: To track health resource and service availability, the health sector continues to conduct the Quarterly Health Facility Monitoring. The 4th Quarterly monitoring for 2021 was completed- covering a total of 133 facilities (89 Health Posts and 44 PHCs) in Rohingya camps. The findings from this exercise is widely disseminated to donors, partners and government to inform operational and strategic decision for prioritization, quality improvement among others. Findings are disseminated through the WHO Cox’s Bazar Data and Information Hub interactive dashboard.
Health Service Quality Improvement: The health sector continues to push forward the agenda on the General Health Card- intended to ensure systematic and harmonized tool for communicating continuity of care across the camps. It is further anticipated to improve patient follow-up information, better communication on patient’s medical and treatment history amongst clinicians involved in the patient care and avoid duplications. The draft has been endorsed by government thus far. A piloting exercise was planned for February- with feedback being compiled at the time of writing.
Access to health care: Provision of essential health care services through a network of 130 primary health care facilities continues with support from more than 90 partners. Firesremains a key threat to health service delivery in the camps. The health sector continues to engage with key partners to ensure health facilities are prepared and equipped to mitigate the rampant risk of fires in health facilities. There is an ongoing policy discussion to harmonize and streamline response wide engagement of volunteers.