ZAMHS are very grateful to have recieved a grant of £8,019 foir this project, this project is funded by Welsh Government’s Wales Africa Grant scheme, administered by WCVA
This project is a collaboration between Hazina, Zanzibar Mental Health Shamba (ZAMHS) and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Zanzibar to enhance strategies for fighting against COVID 19; the objective is to ameliorate the worst effects of epidemic diseases in vulnerable groups. In order to address these problems we have decided to undertake training, and provide PPE materials.
Zanzibar is an archipelago with 2 main islands, Unguja and Pemba, training will have to be provided on the 2 main islands separately. All the facilities are in Unguja, so staff will have to travel to Pemba and stay for 5 days
The project will provide 5 days training in Unguja and 5 days in Pemba, training a total of 55 persons.
Objectives of the Project
To enable and strengthen the capacity of the Primary Health Care Providers to be able to deliver essential mental health care services, including prevention of and protection from COVID 19 to individuals with mental illness in the community in Zanzibar
Specific objectives
To enable people with mental health problems to have the same opportunity of receiving health services and protection against the COVID 19 illness.
To equip Primary Health Service Providers with basic knowledge, skills and techniques of early identification, proper diagnosis, management and referral of the people with mental health / related problems.
To enable Primary Health Service Providers to develop the process of screening for and treating of COVID 19 illness during early stage toward people with illness and those mental illness symptoms related due to COVID 19 illness
To minimize unnecessary hospitalization, enhance community support, rehabilitation and early recovery as well as reducing the chance of new case and death linked with COVID illness
To raise awareness of COVID 19 and mental health COVID related problems through media (TV, radio and IEC materials), schools and community outreach visit.
Offer equipment for COVID 19 prevention and protection to individual, health facilities and community in Zanzibar.
Five facilitators will undertake responsibility to implement the project in Zanzibar. The tools which will be used are the ‘mental health treatment manual’ and WHO Guidelines in Primary Health Care, WHO Mental Health Gap, WHO guideline for COVID – 19 and Zanzibar strategic plan for COVID – 19 intervention.
Supportive supervision and evaluation
Furthermore there will be ongoing process of supportive supervision and evaluation once project implementation phases have been take place. Financial and narrative report of the project progression will be delivered twice in a year. This exercise will take about 1 year to cover all proposed activities in anticipated project.
TRAINING PARTICIPANTS
The training is focused to involve prescribers for the PHCs in different areas of Zanzibar; these incluide: registrars, Clinical Officers and Nurses. The facilitators will be 5 mental health experts from the Mental Health Team and Coordinators from Mental Health Program Zanzibar. They will be responsible for facilitation, coordination and report writing.
The immediate beneficiaries will be the 55 health care workers who receive the training, but from the training the indirect benficiaries will be people with mental health problems in Zanzibar.
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