In deprived areas mothers will not survive delivering their children unless the available healthcare improves. The rate of maternal mortality is disturbingly high, particularly in fragile countries such as the Central African Republic, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Corruption and a failing administration continually impair healthcare in these countries.
The time has come to make healthcare accessible to all people regardless of whether they live in rich or poor areas. The approach used tightens controls and enables patients to take part in deciding their own treatment. In addition, staff remuneration has been made dependent on the achieved results in order to motivate staff to go the extra mile. An approach is called for that not only limits patient contribution to healthcare but also improves its accessibility.
Accessible healthcare for women
All in all, it is time for change. Healthy women are the pillars of both their families and of society. Not only should they be informed how to stay healthy, but also that it is their right to do so; healthcare must be accessible to them. Medical supervision both before and during their pregnancy is crucial. Cordaid works on improving this for all women.
Cordaid aims at providing affordable and accessible healthcare to all, which it has done for many years. Its approach — using the most recent developments and finance methods — is followed throughout the world.
Post 2015
In June 2015 during the MA4 Health Summit in Washington the roadmap for Health measurement and accountability was adopted. Cordaid endorses the ambition and principles, as developed by the Worldbank, USAID, Unicef, WHO with implication of civil society. However, Cordaid esteems that the roadmap is not paying enough attention to specifics of fragile contexts. An entire different and new roadmap should be developed to ensure that the gap between the stable and fragile countries will not become too big to leap.
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