Mass campaigns and collaborating centres: success stories from the Region expand outreach

12 October 2022 – Against a backdrop of rising tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates – from 40 cases per 100 000 in 2019 to 59 per 100 000 in 2021 ­– Libya has taken action to ensure migrants can access life-saving TB services. In January 2020, a new project began offering TB services through outreach activities. Migrants displaying TB symptoms are offered diagnostic services through mobile clinics and to date more than 40 000 presumptive TB patients among the migrant population have been screened for TB. Morocco is developing new strategies to ensure that people with cancer get palliative care. Mobile palliative care units are now delivering in-home services to bedridden people in eight provinces. Two new hospital-based palliative care units with specialized equipment have been established at regional oncology centres in Agadir and Beni Mellal and in-depth online training has been launched to expand the pool of health professionals delivering pain treatment. Oman’s Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL) have gained a crucial new role in global health after being designated a WHO Collaborating Centre. Collaborating Centres are institutions such as universities, hospitals and research facilities that carry out activities to support WHO programmes, and CPHL is the first institution in the Region to become a Collaborating Centre in the field of emerging and re-emerging pathogens. Transforming hospital sector
Source: WHO EMRO News - Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news