Washington, D.C., August 12, 2020 (PAHO)– The Pan American Health Company has trained in Haiti more than 2,800 neighborhood health workers including 2,700 neighborhood health representatives (ASCP) and 162 neighborhood health nurses and auxiliary nurses as part of the action to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing much-needed support to the Ministry of Health and the nation’s Multisectoral Pandemic Management Commission of COVID-19
In addition, PAHO performed conferences with Neighborhood leaders consisting of voodoo priests, catholic priests, pastors, and conventional birth attendants to offer them with accurate details and communication messages about COVID-19 such as protective measures, treatment centers and mainly the connection of important services in healthcare organizations.
Community health workers trained were geared up with personal protective devices (PPE) and communication support such as loudspeakers and batteries, according to a report from the PAHO workplace in Port-au-Prince. This outreach in Haiti is important since it assists touch the hard-to-reach neighborhoods and those who believe in standard medicine.
Training and equipment belongs to PAHO’s comprehensive reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic in Haiti, which concentrates on surveillance, laboratory improvements, case management, and danger interaction to engage with communities and offer information about the disease.
Haiti has 50 examination teams and 299 contact tracing groups in operation throughout the nation, with call centers and information analysis groups active in each department.
As of 11 August, Haiti has actually reported 7,649 cases of COVID-19 with 183 deaths, and 4,982 people who have actually recuperated.
COVID-19 is not the first epidemic to have actually struck Haiti in current years. Field nurses from the Labomoto program, a testing initiative developed to make sure the sampling and transportation of suspected cholera cases to labs for screening, have actually been released to assist carry out tasting of COVID-19 presumed cases in hard-to-reach areas and transportation to the laboratories for PCR testing.
In February, Haiti’s National Laboratory received training and devices from PAHO to set up medical diagnosis of the SARS-CoV-2 infection, with kits to gather samples, and reagents for 9,000 PCR tests. That capacity is under growth to 8 local laboratories in Haiti; 5 of them can now evaluate for the virus themselves through the Gen-Xpert platform, thus decentralizing screening and making sure quicker turnaround, the report stated.
PAHO, in coordination with IOM has also supported the local authorities to establish the COVID-19 border surveillance, guaranteeing detection and testing of symptomatic presumed cases, and quarantine facilities for believed cases at the ports of entry on the border with the Dominican Republic, training their staff and supplying medical supplies and protective devices.
To manage the safe care of those with COVID-19, PAHO has actually offered support with training on infection prevention and control to personnel (medical personnel and assistance personnel) from both COVID and non-COVID health centers, and on oxygen therapy to medical staff. So far, 1,830 healthcare workers have actually been trained on infection prevention and control measures, including the proper use of PPE, and 642 medical staff have been trained in supplying oxygen treatment.
To ensure connection of care in non-COVID hospitals and university hospital, PAHO has actually provided support for the set-up of early detection measures (triage and an isolation space for clients awaiting transfer to a COVID center) to 143 institutions, and supplied equipment consisting of thermometers, oximeters, oxygen concentrators, and PPE.
PAHO likewise supported training for the National Ambulance Center and for personal ambulance companies on safe transport of presumed and validated COVID-19 cases, which included provision of protective equipment.
Vital health services have not been forgotten in the action, including training of 107 health care providers of prenatal, infant and postnatal case on infection prevention and control measures throughout the pandemic, the report stated.
Contacts
Leticia Linn
Sebastian Oliel
Ashley Baldwin
mediateam@paho.org
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