[health-vn] WHO Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (EESC): Toolkit

[vern weitzel]

From: "Jill Iliffe" <iliffe at bigpond.com>
Date: 3 August 2010 8:35:03 AM PDT
To: "HIFA2015 - Healthcare Information For All by 2015" <HIFA2015 at dgroups.org>
Subject: [HIFA2015] WHO Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (EESC): Toolkit
Reply-To: "HIFA2015 - Healthcare Information For All by 2015" <HIFA2015 at dgroups.org>

The World Health Organization has developed a toolkit [*] to provide guidance on developing policy, training curricula, essential equipment, teaching and best practices on trauma, anaesthesia, HIV prevention, pregnancy complications and in disaster situations. The toolkit is available from http://www.who.int/surgery. The toolkit takes a primary health care approach in strengthening health systems to reducing death and disability in injury, pregnancy related complications, congenital anomalies and infection.

Jill ILIFFE
Executive Secretary

Commonwealth Nurses Federation
jill at commonwealthnurses.org
http://www.commonwealthnurses.org 

HIFA2015 profile: Jill Iliffe is Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth Nurses Federation, United Kingdom. Her professional interests include nursing and midwifery education, training, competence, standards, regulation, networking, governance, and leadership. http://www.commonwealthnurses.org 
iliffe AT bigpond.com

[*Note from HIFA2015 moderator: The term 'toolkit' refers here to a package that includes the Surgical Care at the District Hospital manual, training videos, and best practice protocols. Thanks, Neil PW]

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From: Tiffany Keenan keenantiffanyj AT yahoo.com 
Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 12:40 AM
To: HIFA2015 - Healthcare Information For All by 2015
Subject: [HIFA2015] Meeting the information and learning needs of Traditional Birth Attendants (11) TBAs with phones for obstetric emergencies

Does anyone have experience in Emergency Medical Services for TBAs? We are looking to establish a service in Haiti where midwives are given cell phones and trained when to transfer patients in difficult/prolonged labour for emergency care.

I came across a program done in Rwanda with UNICEF and was looking for the experience of any other members of the HIFA group.

Thank you.

Tiffany Keenan, MD CCFP
Haiti Village Health
www.haitivillagehealth.ca
www.haitivillagehealth.blogspot.com 
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skype. tifffany.keenan.1971

HIFA2015 profile: Tiffany Keenan is an Emergency Room Physician and Founder and Director of Bermuda Haiti Village Health. She manages a small clinic in Rural Haiti staffed by Haitians. She is a Member of Health Networks in North Eastern and South Eastern Haiti, trying to link foreign Nationals with local Haitian staff. She sits on a working committee for improving infrastructure of the district Hospital in Northern Haiti. She has an interest in Community Health Workers, and strengthening the National system in Haiti. www.haitivillagehealth.ca keenantiffanyj AT yahoo.com
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