Njie who was speaking at NaNA in a two day Sectoral Policy Review for implementation of health in all policies, said if the sectors are developing their policies or strategies, they should not forget about health.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had the first engagement in 2015, where we brought about technicians, politicians and other decision makers to brief them of the outcome of the helfin declaration on health policies in 2013, focusing on health in all policies,\u201d Njie stated.<\/p>\n
He further indicated that the whole idea is for every sector to ensure that they talk about health, put health in their policies and allocate adequate funds to the health sector. He added that with that they can go above the Abuja 15% declaration of budget allocation for the health sector.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to inform other sectors that whatever they do with their budget, will have huge impact to the health and distribution of health in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Momodou Gassama, the representative of World Health Organisation (WHO) dwelt on the importance of the review, stating that it\u2019s to chart the way for better health in the country for the present and future generation.<\/p>\n
He added that health is very fundamental in \u201cwhatever we do in our development agenda,\u201d while emphasising that no development can take place without health.<\/p>\n
\u201cHealth is beyond health because whatever we do will impact on health, whether directly or indirectly.\u201d<\/p>\n
He expounded that the health sector will change its gears in term of mobilising the necessary resources, strategies and capacities to champion health in all other sectors, in order to reinforce what they are doing.<\/p>\n
Alpha Bah, representative of the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education pointed out that \u201cif we take a look at the composition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we will realise that in each sector, one cross cutting issue is health.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our policy, we have the school health, which we talk about health facilities and health service delivery related to our school system,\u201d he further pointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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