The Ministry of Health has announced that by 2029, all Rwandans will have access to hospitals and 100% health insurance, which will significantly reduce the number of mothers who die during childbirth and the number of children who die during childbirth.
This was announced on January 31, 2024, when the MINISTRY of Health announced the plan to improve the health sector for five years that will end in 2029.
The Ministry of Health has indicated that the program will focus on five important pillars, including increasing the number of doctors in the program called '4×4' where at least four doctors will take care of every 1000 people, down from one.
It is a program that began to be implemented in July 2023, which will leave Rwanda with 58,582 doctors in 2028, with international standards and their well-being being taken care of.
Another focus is on modernizing the medical infrastructure with technology to provide better services to the participants. In this plan, 10 new hospitals and 23 health centers will be built across the country.
In these five years, 30% of the medical infrastructure will be repaired, including the Kigali Health City located in Masaka (Kigali Health City).
The third pillar is to provide the population with quality medical services by treating all diseases that are treated in the country and reaching all those who need medical care. The focus will be on maternal and child health care and the treatment of non-communicable diseases.
The fourth pillar of the focus is to build the capacity to deal with diseases such as epidemics so that health institutions are able to recognize an outbreak and put in place measures to prevent it in advance.
This will include the use of artificial intelligence technology to detect outbreaks, pre-analysis of weather data to help prevent outbreaks and more.
The last column is related to medical research, technology and investment in building a vaccine and medicine industry in Rwanda. The five pillars of focus until 2029 are expected to help the country reduce maternal mortality.
They are expected to go from 105 mothers per 100 thousand births (2023 figures) to 60 per 100 thousand births, etc.
The number of doctors will increase and the number of doctors treating the population will increase from 1.2 doctors per 1000 population to 4.8 doctors per 1000 population.
Health care infrastructure will also reach 100% of all Rwandans from 70% in 2023 and health insurance will increase from 85% to 100%.
It is also planned that in 2029 the resources that will be invested in healthcare in the country will come from within the country at the rate of 60% from the 45% that existed in 2023.
The Secretary of State in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Butera Yvan, said that a step has been taken in Rwanda in dealing with the disease, taking care of the health of the mother and the child, etc., so that the country has given another goal to have eradicated cervical cancer completely in 2027.
