Across the world the universal healthcare cost for patients is imbalanced, often inaccessible and unaffordable. Major barriers include long distances to health facilities, high transportation costs and long waiting times.
Our team has seen an innovative case study in Uganda, as the Ugandan Ministry of Health (MoH) prepares to address this problem with a patient-centric approach. The Uganda MoH is currently piloting a differentiated service delivery model where a Healthcare worker (usually a nurse) will travel to remote communities.
Through this nurse, medication and healthcare services can be administered, eliminating the traveling time and cost pressures for a patient. Members from a community pool together money to fund the transport costs of the Healthcare worker. It is more logical for one person (the healthcare worker) to journey to the community, rather than 30 community members travelling to an already congested healthcare facility where they wait hours for the same service.
An investment case showed a cost reduction of up to 82% for patients as a result of this community based model. We look forward to ongoing learning from the results of the Ugandan pilot as this fresh and innovative solution tears down barriers to improved healthcare services.
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