Public private partnerships and provision of health care services in Uganda 2015 - 2021

Abstract

This study is on Uganda’s health care system and the intervention of the Public Private partnerships policy and its provision of health care in Uganda. The literature includes the major sources such as; secondary data, library records and hard copies or electronic like reports. Health is an essential prerequisite as well as an outcome of sound development policies and the good health status of the population vital for a country’s economic growth. The Health care service remains at the core of government activities upon which the majority of citizens of a particular country depend. Failure of a health delivery system at any level of government legitimizes accusations about the incapacity of governments. The term Public-Private Partnership describes a spectrum of possible relationships between the public and private actors for integrated planning, provision and monitoring of services. Public Private Partnership as a working arrangement planned to bring various resources and abilities from the Government, civil society and private sector to achieve specific results in service delivery that none of the parties working alone would get. Public Private Partnerships imply a sort of alliance to pursue common goals, while leveraging joint resources and capitalizing on the respective competences and strengths of the public and private partners.

This research paper is on public private partnerships and the provision of health care services in Uganda. In low- and middle-income countries, there is great need by the entire health sector managers at all levels to foster good governance, new forms and practices of engaging all stakeholders in the improvement of service delivery. Therefore, the study discusses Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and the provision of health care services to the Ugandan population, opportunities for improving health care services and challenges facing private providers in improving health care services in a low-income setting like Uganda. It is on this background that health care services require the support of the private contractor besides the public or government partnerships in order to benefit the population in Uganda