Where there's a political will, there's a way: Find out why free healthcare for moms and tots has a big pay off in this Bhekisisa_MG report.
After decades of suffering some of the highest maternal and child mortality rates in the world, Mali has vowed to provide free healthcare for pregnant women and children under five in a “brave and bold” move to revamp its dismal healthcare system.
Healthcare experts, international aid agencies and Malian citizens alike have heralded the announcement as a “tremendous” moment for a country that has long struggled to contain preventable infectious diseases such as malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea, and where one in 10 children die before their fifth birthday.
“The ministry of health has taken a very brave and bold political move to make real, evidence-based healthcare change.”BMJ Global Healthchild mortality rates in the district of the capital Bamako dropped by 95% after community health workers began providing free door-to-door healthcareKeïta has committed to increasing the national healthcare budget in order to help finance the reforms, which he said would “make Mali a leader in health sector reform on the African continent”.
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