Feb 28, 2009
Posted by Christopher Moynihan
Niang, Sara and I met with the president of the
Malian National Assembly's
health committee today. There is no existing
committee for primary health care.
We proposed and she agreed to create a
subcommittee expressly to advocate for
universal primary care health coverage for
indigent people. We are meeting
with a group of senators in late may to put
this committee and a yearly
"attelier" (planning session) in place, and we
will hopefully be working with
the Department of Social Development and
Economic Solidarity's new program RAMED
to determine realistic and health-access based
measures of "indigence". Its
long term, but with enough grassroots
organizing to back it up, we might be able
to drastically improve health coverage.
