Participants in an ongoing capacity building for senior and middle-level staff of the Hospital on drafting program of work and budget preparation have expressed delight over the exercise.
Whilst commending Management for this laudable initiative, the participants described the two-day session as highly interactive, educative, and a beneficial venture.
The disclosure was made when the Hospital’s news bulletin interacted with some staff members who had undergone the training.
At some Departments who had eneded their two-day session, a participant in excitement said “oooo the POW exercise is on point. The resource persons very well equipped.
Another participant said the exercise was his first real practical learning experience.
He said the resource persons were practical and realistic, matching programmes with resources available.
Most participants congratulated Management and the resource persons for the session.
In line with the Hospital’s drive to have an effective implementation of programmes of work to achieve desired outcomes,
the Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PPME) Unit has been tasked to train selected staff in all Directorates, Departments and Sub BMCs.
The two-day training is being done to ensure that the Hospital meets its deadline and also achieve an alignment of respective budgets to planned activities.
At the end of the entire exercise, the Hospital is expected to submit its 2023 budget through the Ministry of Health to Parliament as per regulatory requirement, for approval by August, 2022.
At each training session, participants discuss pressing issues in relation to the Health Service System (HSS) Blocks. These are Leadership and Governance, Human Resources, Health Information, Technology, Finances, Service Delivery, Community Participation, Partnership and Research.
In discussing each HSS, gaps and solutions identified in each Department or Sub-BMC is translated into activities into the 2023 POW template and added to next year’s budget and procurement plan to help attain the Hospital’s common goal of providing excellent care.
At the end of the two-day training, each Department, Sub-BMCs and Directorate drafts a Programme of Work and Budget for 2023.
The exercise started on May 16, 2022 and is expected to end on August 3rd, 2022.
At the time of this publication, all clinical departments and four (4) National Centres of Excellence of the Hospital had taken part in the training, with 500 multi-disciplinary staff, benefiting from the exercise. The PPME and Budget Units had therefore started training staff at the Directorates.
Resource persons from the PPME and Budget Units have so far expressed satisfaction working with participants to discuss gaps and solutions, and also assisting in drafting a verifiable 2023 POW, Budget and Procurement Plan.
