Addis Ababa, March 5, 2024(Addis Walta) The 8th National Healthcare Innovation and Quality Summit is underway that emphasizes healthcare quality, safety, and equity in the Ethiopian health system.
A three-day summit under the theme: “Promoting Health System Innovation to Enhance Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Equity,” kicked off today at the Headquarters of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa.
The summit brought together the diverse and dynamic actors in the health sector to share their insights, experiences, best practices, challenges, and opportunities for health system innovation.
Despite tremendous measures that are reinforcing to improve the health sector, rising costs, inconsistent outcomes, and fragmented delivery service among others have remained major bottlenecks in the sector.
To solve the challenges, the Ministry of Health has put a strong emphasis on transforming the health system of the country to ensure a better healthcare system, it was indicated.
To this end, a three-day summit stressed the need to address the challenges in the healthcare service by embracing innovation and developing and implementing new ideas, technologies, and methods.
The summit is also believed to be instrumental in bringing about inputs that would help to improve the health institutions for delivering quality, affordable, as well as equitable healthcare accessibility.
A three-day summit was attended by higher government officials from the federal and regional government of Ethiopia, partners, donors, health professionals, and researchers among others.
Moreover, the summit brought together participants from UN organizations like WHO, Civil Society Organizations, and others in person and via webinar, it was learned.