PH health committee proposes 10-point tangible KPIs for Khairy

 

The Pakatan Harapan health committee said the 10 KPIs they had proposed will help the health ministry to set the benchmark for battling the Covid-19 pandemic.

PETALING JAYA: The Pakatan Harapan (PH) health committee has suggested 10 tangible key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the health ministry’s performance in the coming months with regard to managing the Covid-19 pandemic.

The committee said this was in line with the call by Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob to ensure ministers prove themselves within the first 100 days.

It said these 10 indicators were set out to measure the effectiveness of the “Find, Test, Trace, Isolate and Support, plus Vaccination” (FTTIS+V) strategy undertaken by health minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

These factors will take into consideration the management of cases, number of deaths and hospital capacity, among others.

The committee contended that the initial 10 fundamental KPIs would set the benchmark for the country’s approach to handling the Covid-19 crisis.

It will provide as high a vaccine coverage as possible, control the spread of the virus and flush out any hidden clusters within the community.

The “Find” method will involve the integration of technology to improve the effectiveness of automated detection systems, such as the current Hotspot Identification by Dynamic Engagement (HIDE) system, to predict hotspots at least 14 days in advance.

“Once this is done, it can significantly reduce new hotspots by 70% through proper intervention and implementation of standard operating procedures,” said the committee in a joint statement by PH MPs and leaders today.

The committee also proposed a strategy to increase testing through the increased usage of antigen rapid test kits (RTK-Ag) in the community.

It said the health ministry must expand its targeted testing to at least 250,000 tests a day until the positive rate trend declined nationwide within the set period.

It said the MySejahtera digital contact tracing capacity must be able to trace at least 80% of all close contacts within 24 hours as this will significantly reduce sporadic cases happening in the community.

The other proposals by the committee are:

• Reduce the isolation and admission time upon detection to less than 24 hours. Provide a mechanism for quick isolation or even quick release of home surveillance orders (HSO) digitally using the MySejahtera user profile within 24 hours of detection.
• The government should provide self-care kits, including oximeters, thermometers and self-test kits, especially to the B40 and low M40-income group, as well as fiscal support for the B40 and marginalised communities under quarantine.
• Decrease the current incidence rate to below 55 per 100,000 and increase genomic studies to more than 2% to better monitor changes in the virus.
• Decrease case fatality rate (CFR) from around 0.94% to 0.5% and reduce the number of brought-in-dead (BID) cases from the current rate of 22% to less than 10%.
• Achieve hospital bed occupancy of less than 70% nationwide and less than 50% for Covid-19 intensive care unit beds. The ministry must also provide uninterrupted health services and care for non-Covid-19 cases.
• Achieve 80% full vaccination coverage nationwide and plan for booster dose for high-risk individuals, including healthcare workers, frontliners and patients with comorbidities.
• Better transparency and better open-sourcing for Covid-19 granular data via GitHub on a district and sub-district level, as well as better collaborations with state governments and stakeholders on Covid-19 management. - FMT