Addis Ababa, October 2022 –The District Well being Info System, software program model 2 (DHIS2) coaching is ongoing in 507 woredas of Ethiopia to succeed in a complete of 1,553 individuals in 58 periods. The coaching goals to digitalize and enhance the gathering, high quality and use of COVID-19 vaccination knowledge.
WHO is presently supporting this coaching technically and financially since July 2022 to cowl 51% of the whole woredas in seven areas specifically Amhara, Benishangul Gumuz, Somali, SNNP, South-West Ethiopia Peoples, Afar and Oromia, and the remaining 49% woredas had been educated earlier by Ministry of well being and different companions. The trainees had been drawn from the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), Maternal and Baby Well being (MCH) and well being administration info system (HMIS) items of the woredas.
To this point, six areas SNNP, South-West Ethiopia Peoples, Benshangul Gumuz, Oromia, Amhara and Afar accomplished the coaching and the remaining Somali area coaching is scheduled to be carried out from October 17 – 20, 2022.
The COVID-19 vaccination knowledge assortment has been built-in within the DHIS2 platform since 2021 to seize tracker and combination knowledge and to handle Ethiopia’s digital vaccination registry. The system features a digital certificates element that permits for the technology of vaccine certificates for travellers. The coaching has improved the digitalization and high quality of COVID-19 vaccination knowledge and allow each woreda for higher knowledge use and efficiency monitoring. Moreover, it can assist the system to keep away from parallel reporting of COVID-19 vaccination knowledge by google sheet which was used as a brief means and improved the information discrepancy noticed among the many two platforms.
The coaching was supplied within the acknowledged universities and faculties within the respective areas with customary and nicely facilitated pc laboratories having robust web connectivity. Because the coaching was sensible, the variety of trainees for every session was restricted to 25 – 30 as customary to make the person primarily based teaching extra appropriate. The trainers had been specialists of DHIS2 from FMOH and respective regional well being bureaus who had obtained COVAC DHIS2 TOT and had an expertise of offering the coaching through the first-round implementation by the FMOH.
DHIS2 has change into the world’s largest health-information administration system, utilized by 73 low- and middle-income international locations in 2022. Ethiopia is one in every of these international locations that adopted DHIS2 as its nationwide well being info system platform.
Ethiopia first started implementation of DHIS2 as their Well being Administration Info System (HMIS) in 2016, and achieved implementation at nationwide scale in 2019, simply earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Well being (FMoH) shifted from HMIS to DHIS2 aiming in direction of integration of information from totally different areas which allow to conduct knowledge use and evaluation in any respect ranges of the well being sector by harmonizing upstream knowledge assortment in addition to downstream reporting. The coaching is made attainable by the beneficiant assist of United States Division of State (USDOS)