With the generous support of EPN’s partner Misereor, implemented projects in Ghana, Cameroon (PCC), DRC (DCMP & CBCA) and Uganda (JMS) with the overall goal of improving the management of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Church Health Institutions as was previously done around AMR. Members have been doing the following to achieve:
The approach taken was to train a small group of pharmacists, doctors and nurses from the selected institutions on NCDs and DTCs and empower them as champions in their home-facilities and to promote the interventions developed. In total 53 healthcare workers were trained in the 4 countries.
As is in EPN intervention procedure, activities comprised of a baseline study on current practices, development of interventions, meeting with hospital management for awareness raising, training of health care workers on the selected NCDs and in this case, establishing of DTCs to promote prudent use of medicines.