Second Training of Trainers on Infection Prevention and Control

Port Louis.  Some 27 health care workers, involving specialists, public health superintendents, medical officers and nurses across five health regions have been trained during a three day training workshop on the World Health Organization (WHO) Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) guidelines, standards, early detection, triage, diagnosis, and controls and other IPC measures. The training was organized at Dr D.G. Jeetoo Hospital from 17th to 19th May 2021.  This training of trainers was jointly conducted and facilitated by WHO and officers from Ministry of Health and Wellness (MoHW) who attended the capacity building workshop last year. The second training of trainers’ workshop was conducted in order to further strengthen the capacity of MOHW in terms of trained human capacity.  The fully capacitated Health Care Workers will eventually support the focal points in each region to conduct cascade trainings and implement and monitor respective IPC control measures in their respective field of work. This serves as a turnkey event and will aid towards a huge task of training approximately 10,000 health care workers and thus optimizing participation of doctors, nurses, community workers and support staff on infection prevention and control practices.

Ghana shares success story in COVID-19 vaccine rollout with Cote d’Ivoire

Ghana COVAX Facility on arrival
News on the discovery of COVID-19 vaccine brought with it, a renewed sense of hope and security as had been the expectation. Prior to that, COVID-19 response strategy had mainly been non-pharmaceutical interventions (face masks, physical distancing, hand hygiene) and the vaccines were expected to be an additional preventative measure to the pre-existing protocols. 

WHO Rwanda launches the fourth Country Cooperation Strategy 2021-2024

Meeting for the dissemination of WHO Rwanda Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS4) and Sectoral Technical Validation of the Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) Sustainability Plan, Kigali, 25 May 2021

Kigali, 28 May 2021 – The World Health Organization (WHO) Rwanda Country Office (RCO) launched the fourth WHO Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS). The strategy launched provides a roadmap for WHO support to the Government of Rwanda for the next four years (2021-2024). 

More Nigerians are embracing skin-to-skin care to reduce hypothermia in newborns

Mr. Shuaibu assisted by healthcare workers providing skin to skin contact to his baby immediately after birth

Abuja, May 26, 2020 - At Kwali General Hospital Abuja post-natal ward lies Abdul Shuaibu, a 34year old civil servant holding his newly born baby - his second child, on his chest. This is becoming a familiar sight at the hospital in recent times. He was observing the 60-minute skin to skin Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) usually done by mothers.