Supporting strong primary health care during the pandemic
Amid the emergency COVID-19 response, we cannot afford to ignore people’s broader health needs. Primary health care has a critical role to play in ensuring continued access to routine and essential services.
Maintaining access to routine and essential health services
While the morbidity and mortality directly attributed to COVID-19 are likely to be high in many countries including Malawi, indirect mortality from other preventable and treatable diseases can be staggering when access to care is reduced.
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Wandikweza is maintaining continuity of service delivery for routine and essential care necessary for minimizing excess morbidity and mortality and maintaining population trust in the health system.
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Survaillance and response
As a person’s first entry point into the health system, primary health care provides a critical foundation for the direct surveillance, response, and management of outbreaks. Wandikweza, by nature of its community orientation, Wandikweza is allowing the multi-sectoral action needed to reduce vulnerability and build the resilience of communities.
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Wandikweza is leveraging primary health care for Covid-19 response in underserved communities where there is often limited access to healthcare overall.
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Support Covid-19 vaccination efforts
Vaccination is essential to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The urgency of the pandemic has instigated unprecedented scientific speed and collaboration.
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As COVID-19 vaccination efforts get underway in Malawi, they are the subject of intense attention and focus in remote areas. For vaccination campaigns to effectively manage the COVID-19 pandemic, high population coverage is required.
Because of our community orientation, Wandikweza provides an important platform for achieving this goal.
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