RWAMAGANA – Rwanda Family Health Project (RFHP) sponsored by USAID, is set to promote community-based Family Health services in the Southern Province.This was disclosed by Doris Youngs, Chief of Party RFHP, while addressing health officials and vice mayors in charge of social affairs, in the province yesterday.This programme will be implemented over a course of five years will sponsor an integrated package of services related to among others, family planning and reproductive health.She advised health partners in districts to identify priority areas that would be facilitated.“We are talking to stakeholders so that by the time we launch the programme on August 28, we will have all necessary information. The Ministry of Health identified 22 districts that we shall support...our finances are limited and don’t cover things like salaries and construction,” she told district officials.Madeleine Bucyensenge, the director of social affairs and governance said that the project would be essential, particularly in addressing the issue of family planning.She assured the project managers that districts would give them maximum support, adding that assessment of needs in areas of intervention would follow forthwith.Meanwhile, Yvonne Dusabe, the vice Mayor in charge of social affairs in Rwamagana district, said that they were facing issues of paying health workers in the district.“There are about 64 workers in our district, who never appeared in the new salary structure...we wonder what we shall do come end of September. The Ministry of Health should give us solutions before we get stuck,” she said.
