The Ministry of Health and Social Action led by Dr Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye has signed a partnership agreement with Senegal Numerique SA led by Cheikh BAKHOUM for a period of three years.

This important agreement will make the processing of administrative files more effective and efficient and will allow greater speed and speed in the management of patients and in the orientation of the medical file with tact and precision.

During the meeting in front of their respective teams and journalists, the two authorities assured the desire to carry out this mission which is close to the heart of the President of the Republic, Macky Sall, who had to raise this subject in several speeches at the nation. In his New Year's speech on December 31, 2022, the Head of State called for complete digitalization of the health system, specifying that "we absolutely must reform and improve the governance of the sector, in order to make it more efficient and more transparent.

It must also be said that this long-standing collaboration between the two entities will be better structured and reinforced in this new framework partnership agreement. " There Senum Sa has been supporting the MSAS for several years in the connectivity and hosting of health data by making the internet available in health structures and care delivery services. Our department still needs the support of the Senum SA. Indeed, we are in an accelerated phase of the digital transformation of Health, in accordance with the instructions of the President of the Republic,” said the Minister. Not deviating from these principles of digital technology for everyone and everywhere, DG Cheikh BAKHOUM is committed with his teams to supporting the ministry. “Technology has the power to radically transform healthcare delivery by making services more accessible, more efficient and patient-focused. This agreement represents a major step in our commitment to modernize and digitize the digital health sector. Senegal Numerique is thus committed to supporting the implementation of the digital transformation strategy, the hosting of data from the ministry's applications at the national Datacenter, the provision and improvement of the connectivity of health structures, the digitalization and the safeguarding of the ministry’s archives among others,” he said.

It must be said that with this signature, the paperwork of medical files in the hands of a patient or on the table of their attending physician, the delays in the processing of care files, the administrative management of certain letters between the agents themselves -themselves, with partners or structures, will soon be a bad memory according to the Secretary General of the Ministry, Dr Abib Ndiaye. The ministerial department of health also intends to seize the opportunities offered by the arrival of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and has already started the pilot phase of digitalization of health systems in certain regions such as Dakar, Diourbel, Saint Louis, Matam , Tambacounda…