Primary Healthcare

Strengthening health systems and community structures to expand equitable access to quality primary healthcare.

OVERVIEW

GIMPACS adopts a people-centred, community-based, and health systems strengthening approach to improve equitable access to quality primary healthcare services. We work in close collaboration with government institutions, healthcare providers, community structures, and development partners to deliver integrated health services that are accessible, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of vulnerable populations.

Our approach combines direct service delivery, capacity strengthening, community engagement, health promotion, and evidence-based decision-making to ensure sustainable improvements in healthcare outcomes.

Strategic Objectives

Improve access to timely, quality, and affordable outpatient healthcare services.
Reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality through quality maternal healthcare.
Improve child survival and healthy development through integrated child healthcare services.
Empower individuals and couples to make informed reproductive health decisions.
Increase immunization coverage and reduce vaccine-preventable diseases.
Strengthen local health systems through capacity building and technical support.

Implementation Strategies and Approaches

Outpatient Consultations

Strategy: Improve access to timely, quality, and affordable healthcare services by strengthening primary healthcare facilities and extending healthcare through community outreach and mobile medical services.

Our Approach:

Supporting mobile medical outreach teams to provide consultations in underserved and hard-to-reach communities.
Strengthening primary healthcare centres through essential medical equipment, supplies, and logistics.
Building healthcare workers’ capacity on integrated primary healthcare delivery, triage, and patient-centred care.
Promoting early health-seeking behaviour through community awareness campaigns and health education.
Establishing effective referral pathways for patients requiring specialized care.
Using community feedback and accountability mechanisms to improve service quality.

Maternal & Newborn Healthcare

Strategy: Reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality by improving access to quality maternal healthcare services before, during, and after childbirth.

Our Approach:

Promoting early registration and attendance at antenatal care (ANC) clinics through community mobilization.
Supporting referral systems linking pregnant women to skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care.
Strengthening healthcare workers’ capacity in safe motherhood, emergency obstetric and newborn care, and IPC.
Conducting community education on birth preparedness, danger signs, newborn care, and exclusive breastfeeding.
Supporting continuity of care through postnatal follow-up visits and community-based referrals.
Integrating maternal health with nutrition, WASH, protection, and mental health services.

Child Health Services

Strategy: Improve child survival and healthy development by expanding access to integrated child healthcare services and preventive interventions.

Our Approach:

Community-based growth monitoring and routine child health screening.
Supporting Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) approaches at health facilities.
Promoting early diagnosis, treatment, and referral of childhood illnesses.
Conducting routine nutrition screening and referral for children with acute malnutrition.
Supporting Vitamin A supplementation, deworming campaigns, and child health awareness initiatives.
Educating caregivers on nutrition, hygiene, immunization, and appropriate healthcare-seeking practices.

Family Planning

Strategy: Empower individuals and couples to make informed reproductive health decisions through voluntary, rights-based, and culturally sensitive family planning services.

Our Approach:

Conducting community awareness and behaviour change campaigns on reproductive health and family planning.
Training healthcare workers on family planning counselling, informed choice, and client-centred service delivery.
Promoting male involvement and community dialogue to improve acceptance and support.
Strengthening referral systems for access to a broad range of family planning services.
Integrating family planning information into maternal, newborn, adolescent, and community health programmes.
Collaborating with government and partners to improve availability of family planning commodities.

Immunization Support

Strategy: Increase immunization coverage and reduce vaccine-preventable diseases by strengthening routine immunization systems and community demand for vaccination.

Our Approach:

Mobilizing communities to participate in routine immunization and supplementary vaccination campaigns.
Supporting outreach immunization sessions in remote and underserved communities.
Training community volunteers and health workers on vaccine communication and defaulter tracking.
Conducting community education to address myths, misconceptions, and vaccine hesitancy.
Supporting immunization data collection, monitoring, and use of evidence to improve service delivery.
Coordinating with government agencies and humanitarian partners on immunization planning and logistics.

Cross-Cutting Implementation Approaches

Community-Centred Programming: communities are actively involved in planning, implementation, and monitoring for locally-owned, sustainable interventions.
Health Systems Strengthening: GIMPACS strengthens existing government health structures through capacity building and technical assistance rather than parallel systems.
Integrated Service Delivery: health interventions are delivered alongside nutrition, WASH, protection, education, and livelihoods programmes.
Equity and Inclusion: interventions ensure equitable access for women, children, adolescents, older persons, persons with disabilities, and displaced populations.
Evidence-Based Programming: programme design is informed by needs assessments, surveillance data, and community feedback.
Partnership and Coordination: close collaboration with government ministries, local authorities, UN agencies, donors, and civil society to maximize impact.

Expected Outcomes

Improved equitable access to primary healthcare services for underserved populations.
Reduced maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality.
Improved child survival and healthy development outcomes.
Increased uptake of voluntary, rights-based family planning services.
Higher immunization coverage and reduced vaccine-preventable disease burden.
Stronger, more resilient local health systems capable of sustaining improved outcomes.

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