People's Primary Healthcare Initiative Balochistan

The PPHI Balochistan was established in 2006-2007. The country launched a “Primary Health Care Model 1999” (later known as PPHI) in district Rahim Yar Khan in 2003 on pilot basis which was an instant success. This not only reinforced the government’s confidence in the effectiveness of the project, but also gave it a hope that the ailing PHC sector could be reinvigorated through a partnership arrangement. In the following years, the government began contracting out the management and execution of primary health services to the People’s Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI). The 18th Constitutional amendment enhanced provincial autonomy by transferring, among other things, the subject of health to the provinces. Having the health sector in its purview and considering PPHI’s previous performance, the Government of Balochistan decided to renew the agreement with PPHI-B for delivery of primary healthcare services. So far, over 750 Basic Health Units and Health Facilities BHUs/HFs across thirty-three districts of Balochistan have been taken over by PPHI-B under the renewed agreement. PPHI Balochistan now operates as a not-for-profit registered company with an eminent Board of Directors. PPHI-B is strengthening the primary health care agenda; and creating better functional links between programs with specific health outcomes in light of PHC principals: *Commitment to health equity as part of development oriented to social justice. *Community participation in defining and implementing health agenda. *Appropriate Technology *Inter-sectoral approaches to health. *Human Resource Development VISION: “To improve the health of all Pakistanis with focus on Balochistan, particularly women and children, through universal access to affordable quality essential health services, and delivered through resilient and responsive health system, ready to attain Sustainable Development Goals and fulfill its other global health responsibilities”. MISSION:“FIGHTING POVERTY THROUGH HEALTHCARE”