Public health workers will have to choose within one to two years, either to work in the public or in the private sector. In the meantime, they can work in the private sector 8 hours a week, according to a decision taken Thursday by the Burkinabè government in the Council of Ministers.

“Under the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, the Council adopted a report on the issue of interventions by public health workers in private health facilities.

For Minister Robert Lucien Jean-Claude KARGOUGOU, this supervision will go through the signing of agreements between public health workers, public health structures, the universities to which these health workers belong and the private health structures where they must intervene. .

According to him, the regulations will allow public health workers to intervene 8 hours a week in the private sector, either in one day or in two half-days.

To this end, the Council has also adopted very important transitional provisions on the issue.

“For specialists, this authorization to intervene in private structures is for a maximum of two years, after which specialists will be invited to formally choose between being in the public and being in the private sector”, explained the minister. KARGUGOU.

He added that for the rest of the health corps, this authorization is for a maximum of one year, after which a choice must be made for the exercise of the function.

The Minister in charge of Health also specified that the adoption of this report will make it possible to clarify the intervention of public health agents in the private sector, to minimize conflicts of interest, to improve the availability of agents in the structures public health facilities and to improve the equitable access of the population to quality health services.

Source: Burkina Information Agency