Universal access to healthcare in Togo: modern equipment for health facilities

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Extract from the article: L’État Togolais poursuit inlassablement sa politique sociale avec notamment la modernisation des formations sanitaires, conformément à la Feuille de route gouvernementale Togo 2025. Dans cette dynamique d’améliorer davantage la qualité des offres de

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The Togolese government is relentlessly pursuing its social policy, in particular by modernising health facilities in line with the government's Togo 2025 roadmap. As part of this drive to further improve the quality of healthcare services and the working conditions of health workers, and to strengthen the resilience of the population, on 1 August 2024 the Togolese government provided several health centres with modern medical equipment worth almost 20 billion CFA francs.

The equipment was handed over by the Minister for Health and Public Hygiene, Pr Moustafa Mijiyawa, in the presence of the Minister for Universal Access to Healthcare, Jean Marie Tessi, and the World Bank Resident Representative, Fily Sissoko. This social gesture is part of the Strengthening the Preparedness of Emergency Response Systems Project (REPSRU) and the Quality Essential Health Services for Universal Health Coverage Project (SSEQCU), projects implemented by the Togolese government with the support of the World Bank Group.

Strengthening technical platforms and improving healthcare

The new equipment, which had been on order for several months, was delivered following various procurement procedures, in compliance with current standards. They include 15 mobile digital X-ray diagnostic machines and accessories, 150 modern delivery beds, 100 mechanical delivery tables and 80 delivery tables, 6742 mechanical hospital beds and 200 hospital beds, 500 electric hospital beds, 7 medical ambulances for 07 hospitals in the country, 2 digestive endoscopy columns, 12 haematology automats, 25 examination tables, 15 sampling chairs, 120 treatment trolleys, 50 stretcher trolleys, 50 binocular optical microscopes, 15 bench autoclaves and 75 mucus aspirators,

In addition, there are 50 haemoglobinometers, 60 eight-key haemoleucometers, 50 foetal pulse detectors, 150 glucometers and test strips, 200 blood pressure monitors and stethoscopes, 15 laboratory refrigerators, 15 2-compartment refrigerators, 100 isothermal coolers, 1 cobas immunology machine with vidas, 12 benchtop centrifuges, 2 CPAP systems for newborns, 40 treatment tables, 15 vein viewers, 150 gallows and baskets, 12 automated biochemistry machines, 3 Doppler ultrasound scanners on trolleys (multifunctional), 25 multiparametric monitoring monitors, 80 mobile oxygen therapy stations.

To ensure that health workers have effective mobility and can work in optimal conditions, 50 all-terrain motorbikes have been made available to community health workers, 150 motorbikes to strengthen epidemiological surveillance and the Expanded Programme on Immunisation in the field, a batch of computer equipment, 120 laptops, 1 batch of 1,885 items of ICT equipment to strengthen the Public Health Emergency Operations Centres and four 110 KVA generators.

This equipment will be distributed throughout the country's health facilities and will help to strengthen their technical platforms with a view to significantly improving the healthcare delivered to the population.

Recognition and gratitude

The Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Professor Moustafa Mijiyawa, expressed his gratitude to the Togolese Government for its policy to improve the state of health of the Togolese people. He also expressed his gratitude to the World Bank Group for its constant support and commitment to building an efficient and reliable health system. These actions also illustrate the dynamic partnership between the World Bank Group and Togo, particularly in the universal public health sector.Cooperation between the Bretton Woods institution and Togo focuses on several strategic areas, namely the development of high-quality human resources and the construction, rehabilitation and equipping of social and health infrastructures.The World Bank Group's Resident Representative in Togo, Fily Sissoko, reaffirmed his institution's willingness to further support Togo in modernising its health system.In his view, the equipment is intended to support Togo's efforts to provide effective patient care in our hospitals.

The receipt of this batch of equipment adds to the long list of initiatives already undertaken to bring healthcare closer to the people, especially the most vulnerable, with a view to achieving universal health coverage.

William O.