Sheila Dickson INMO President February 2012
Where? – Ethiopia For Whom? – Health Care Workers & Families How? – Partnership With Whom? – Nursing Association, Funders and Department of Health
Reasons Improve Health of Staff Unsafe Workplace Stress, Burnout, High Attrition Rates and Migration
Services Provided HIV and TB Testing / Treatments Education in Prevention Training Occupation Health & Safety Stress Management Counselling
Wellness Centres Established Swaziland Malawi Zambia Lesotho Uganda
Positive Results in Swaziland 6,225 Health Care Workers treated 77% of total workforce Outreach programme Migration 65% uptake / monthly Now Government Policy
Health Statistics Ethiopia 54,000 Health Workers to serve 85 Million People 1 Physician for 37,996 1 Nurse for 4725 (MOH 2008) Major Public Health Problems – TB, Malaria and HIV/AIDS Accessing Services Difficult Pay for Diagnostic Procedures / Treatment – Unaffordable.
Nurse from Lesotho - “The wellness centre has been a real refuge for me. It means I don’t have to queue in overcrowded waiting rooms with my own patients”
Current Status of Ethiopia Wellness Centre Site Donated by Ministry of Health Ethiopia Alert Hospital, Addis Ababa Funders INMO / PEPFAR / BD Renovations in process Mou Signed by ENA/ICN/INMO
INMO Largest Nursing & Midwives Organisation Membership – 42,000 Professional & Trade Union Linked to 120 Countries (ICN) Objective to share experience and support with nursing associations
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