About twenty health workers from the Manga health district (Zoundwéogo province) began, on Friday, a two-day information and discussion session on social protection and the law on the Universal Health Insurance Scheme (RAMU), at the initiative of the Permanent Secretariat of Non-Governmental Organizations (SPONG), in collaboration with the Zak La Yilguemdé Association (AZLY)."The objective of this meeting for exchanges and visibility on social protection and the law on RAMU is to better equip health workers in the Manga health district," said the executive secretary of AZLY, Aimée Yaméogo, during the opening ceremony.She said that the Universal Health Insurance Scheme (RAMU) was designed and implemented to "increase the use of health services and ensure that everyone, everywhere, has access to quality health services without suffering financial hardship."To date, she noted, the process of implementing RAMU in Burkina Faso is at an advanced stage, with, among other things, the adoption of the legal and regulatory framework as well as the related implementing decrees.Coming from different health facilities in the Manga district, the twenty or so participants in the meeting, organized in partnership with UNICEF, will thus become more familiar with the law and the implications relating to RAMU.These are health workers of all profiles, including doctors, nurses, midwives, obstetricians and social workers, said the chief medical officer of the Manga health district, Dr. Inoussa Sawadogo.For Dr. Sawadogo, the visibility meeting on RAMU is timely."It is an opportunity for us to have this training session for the benefit of health workers, who had fragmentary information, and who, today, will have the opportunity to strengthen their knowledge on this approach, to better prepare themselves and to raise more awareness among beneficiaries so that when it comes to implementation, we are truly as effective as possible," he said.Dr. Inoussa Sawadogo also hoped that at the end of the work, "participants will be able to fully understand the RAMU approach and that they will also take ownership of it in order to be vectors of information to the populations."Source: Burkina Information Agency