Stakeholders in the health sector of Cross River State are currently having a 3-day Annual Operational Plan Review meeting aimed at examining assessing implementation and performance of activities captured in the 2024 plan.
The workshop which also seeks to develop strategies for achieving minimum of 80% implementation of the end of the year is facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Health with support from the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF).
Declaring the event opened, Cross River Commissioner for Health, Dr Henry Egbe Ayuk, stated that the meeting lays emphasis on the importance of work planning, saying the Operational Plan is a tool that will guide the health sector on what it should be doing - planning.
Ayuk thanked UNICEF for the continued support and being in the forefront of things, and the Federal Ministry of Health for facilitating the programme.
"I charge you, particularly now that we are moving to the next budget phase to be guided properly by the AOP so that at the end of the day you stick to an agenda that is not completely the same with the previous years. Let us take this seriously as it gives us a guide to what we should be focusing on," the Commissioner tasked participants.
Also speaking, the Director of Planning, Research and Statistics in the State Ministry of Health, Mr. Casmir Ugbong, said in the course of the event, participants are expected to carefully study the documents with emphasis on the group's pillar, unit or thematic area.
Other expectations, Mr. Ugbong outlined, to identify and list all activities yet to be implemented; identify and lists all activities so far implemented; come up with at least three strategies for achieving a minimum of 80% implementation of activities as captured in the 2024 health sector AOP.
The meeting which commenced on Wednesday, July 10 and would last till Friday, July 12, 2024, at Ikom, had about 40 participants drawn from the Federal Ministry of Health, State Ministry of Health, State Primary Health Care Development Agency, with Mr. Chima Ugwu the consultant.
Ebi Collins, Beagle News
