Members of staff of the Ministry of Health listening attentively to the update that is being given on the Ministry’s restructuring exercise. The meeting was called by Permanent Secretary Dr. Jean Dixon this morning (Thurs. Jan 7, 2010) to discuss the process with the staff.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jean Dixon has established a specialist team to restructure the operations of the Health Corporation Limited and the National Health Fund and to establish a new institutional arrangement that will manage the pharmaceutical operations in the public health sector effective April 1, 2010. The team comprises representatives from NHF, HCL and the Ministry of Health.

The Specialist team has been given four weeks (4) to complete its work and will be responsible for determining the functions that may need to be outsourced, retained, integrated, strengthened or abolished and the legal and policy framework that would be required to support the new arrangement.

The team has also been given the mandate to determine the structure that may be needed to carry out administrative functions for a transition period and the skills necessary for these.

The Specialist team will report to the Ministry of Health’s Inter-disciplinary Transition team that has been set up within the Ministry of Health to manage the implementation of the broader restructuring of the health Ministry’s bureaucracy.

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