Burkina Faso health system

3 sectors: public sub-sector, private sub-sector and traditional sub-sector:

Public sub-sector:

• Health districts:

  • First level of contact:

    • 1,606 health and social promotion centres, 123 isolated clinics, 14 isolated maternity clinics and 32 medical centres

    • Minimum package of activities (including malaria)

  • Second level: 45 district referral hospitals/medical centres with surgical units

• Regional level

  • Hospitals (9)

  • Referral level facilities for district level

• National level

  • University hospitals (3), national hospital

  • Referral level facilities for regional level

  • Medical training and research

Laboratory network at 120 facilities at all levels

Private Sector 

• 2013: 78 private healthcare facilities providing hospital care

• 306 private healthcare facilities providing non-hospital care

• 693 private dispensing pharmacies and drug stores

• Mostly in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso

Traditional medicine sector

• MoH recommends that serious cases of illness seen by these practitioners be referred to healthcare facilities 

  • Practitioners will be trained to recognize signs of severe malaria (funded by the state budget)

• Traditional medicine sector is gradually being incorporated into the health system under the Directorate for Medicine and Traditional Medicine at the MoH.
• Government budget will support training of traditional medicine practitioners to recognize signs of severe malaria and to refer these cases to the appropriate health facility.