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Part 03 of 08 · Health & care

Healthcare and essential medicines

Care nearby. Help on time.

Put working clinics, essential medicines and safe referrals ahead of prestige projects.

Full manifesto, p.34Picture guide, pp.8–9
Conceptual miniature of a community clinic with an ambulance bay, water tank and patients arriving

What we will do

Three practical steps

An ambulance needs more than a vehicle. It needs a trained crew, fuel and a place ready to receive the patient.

  1. Reach care
  2. Get treatment
  3. Refer safely

  1. Keep the essentials ready

    Improve medicine supplies, staffing, safe water, power and equipment maintenance.

  2. Make the next step clear

    Patients should know where to go, what services cost and how emergency referrals work.

  3. Reduce financial hardship

    Strengthen the existing health insurance system within available staff, supplies and funding.

From the full programme

Delivery safeguards and conditions

Track every medicine

A tracer list per facility level, tracked from purchase to dispensing, with public stock-out reports and no patient records exposed.

A patient service charter

Each facility displays hours, services, authorised fees, referral arrangements and complaint contacts, also offline.

By 2029

Halve stock-out days for the approved tracer list in participating facilities, without redefining the list.

Build on NHIS

Strengthen the existing National Health Insurance Scheme rather than present it as new. Publish its benefits and rules plainly.

How to judge progress

Check the result

  • Are medicines available?
  • Does equipment work?
  • Can patients find clear fees and complaint contacts?

2031 delivery target

Essential-medicine availability

Target
95%

Goal of at least 95% of defined facility-medicine-days by 2031. Not a current result; scope and verification to be published.

Source: manifesto p.35

Full chapter in the manifesto: pp.34, 35.