Rwanda Focuses on Health Workers to Strengthen COVID-Related Services in 20 Districts

July 08, 2022Health workers in 20 districts throughout Rwanda are making higher-quality health services related to COVID-19 available to more people in their communities, thanks to training through IntraHealth’s USAID-fundedIngobyi project. Together with the Rwanda Ministry of Health, we are improving the quality and accessibility of services related to family planning, maternal and newborn health, as well as malaria prevention and treatment.“When COVID-19 began to spread in 2020, we had to pivot our preexisting plans and implementation strategies to make sure health workers had the right supplies and training they needed to keep communities safe,” saysSamson Radeny, IntraHealth’s country director in Rwanda.“We used a variety of approaches to focus on both health worker response and community sensitization.”And while the Rwandan government had solid outbreak-response structures in place to protect against the spread of Ebola from neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo, they needed to quickly bolster and tailor these systems for the COVID-19 pandemic. So the Ingobyi team advised and provided technical assistance to the government to train the country’s health workers, build needed infrastructure, and communicate effectively about COVID-19. Together, we:Trained 280 health workers onCOVID-19 case management and care in 26 hospitals.Partnered with10 radio stations to disseminate messages about COVID-19, malaria, and maternal, newbor...
Source: IntraHealth International - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Rwanda Ingobyi Family Planning & Reproductive Health Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Malaria Maternal, Newborn, Child Health Health workforce development Global health security Systems Health Workers Source Type: news