Contracts for Health (PCH)
The US Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan (SIGAR) has recently questioned the existence of some MoPH health facilities. The facilities were funded until 30th June 2015, through the USAID Partnerships Contracts for Health (PCH) deliver basic, essential health services.
SIGAR has based its questioning on GPS location data on the health facilities information that was originally provided by the MoPH. The Ministry is the first to admit that its GPS location data is not always accurate as the use of such technology is relatively new for the Ministry. The data has therefore never been used by the MoPH to validate the existence of a health facility. The MoPH relies on on-the ground visits to verify that a health facility exists and to monitor the delivery of health services.
The MoPH believes that all the health facilities built under the PCH project exist. Furthermore, that the facilities are functioning in their role of delivering basic health services to hundreds of thousands of women, men and children.
The MoPH would like to take this opportunity to thank USAID for its’ much valued support without its’ past, current and planned support mortality and morbidity rates especially among women and children would be much higher.