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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The head of immunisation programme in the Health ministry, Dr Alfred Driwale, has said they will start paying health workers using digital payment methods.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the launch of the Digital Health Payment Initiatives and Research in Africa (DHPI-R) project, Dr Driwale said health workers have been experiencing delayed payment because of rudimentary methods.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe times are changing and the way we do business must change. One of the things which should change is the speed with which you [health workers] receive funds and ability to trace expenditure,\u201d he said yesterday in Kampala.<\/p>\n

Dr Driwale said the challenges they get with the existing system, which delays payment, is that often they don\u2019t have an existing database at the local level with people whom they routinely include in community-level activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, if you don\u2019t have the database of community health workers and village health teams whom you ordinarily pay, who are in the tens of thousands, it will delay the payment. Because first, you will have to register them in hard copy, then someone has to enter the data into an electronic platform-excel document, then this will be uploaded into the [government] system for payment,\u201d Dr Driwale explained.<\/p>\n

Prof Peter Waiswa, the director of the project at Makerere University School of Public Health, said they will collect a database of health workers and test the efficiency of the method in a three-year period.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is for health workers who participate in immunisation campaigns in Africa. One of the most important tools we have is immunisation. We have been doing Covid-19, polio, HIV\/Aids, malaria campaigns, but the way we have been paying health workers is an issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you carry cash from Kampala to the rest of the country and make sure you pay people on time and the right amount of money \u2013you know how money can disappear. If people are not paid on time and the right amount of money, they are not always motivated and this affects the quality of the campaign,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Dr Diwale, however, said some health workers whose details are in government systems are being paid using digital methods.<\/p>\n

Dr Herbert Luswata, the secretary-general of Uganda Medical Association, told this newspaper that the project will be a game changer.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor outreach programmes such as immunisation, it is very feasible because it makes accountability very easy. When you pay using mobile money, you just show a mini-statement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

READ: Doctors issue fresh warning to govt over delayed pay rise<\/p>\n

Funding<\/p>\n

The project is a $3 million (Shs11b) Bill and Melinda Gates-funded investment that established a new research initiative anchored at two existing prominent African institutions. The institutions include Makerere University and the University of Dakar, Senegal, to catalyse the creation of evidence on the value add of digitalised payment of health workers on the quality of immunisation and other health campaigns.<\/p>\n

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