Afrigather Over 200 healthcare employees have been skilled with the purpose to enhance real-time detection and immediate response to illness outbreaks and different well being emergencies.
With help from the World Well being Group (WHO), the Ministry of Well being have skilled healthcare employees on using Early Warning, Alert and Response System (EWARS) in over 20 counties in South Sudan to optimize its use to help surveillance, alert administration, outbreak response, and laboratory knowledge and administration.
EWARS is a web-based system and designed to enhance illness outbreak detection in emergency settings.
In 2017 the EWARS undertaking was rollout to all of the 80 Counties of South Sudan with the second part of the rollout additional decentralizing knowledge assortment and alert administration right down to the well being facility degree from 2019 to early 2020.
“With this coaching, I’m able to determine and lift alerts within the system, confirm alerts, examine triggered alerts, and submit verification and/or investigation findings to the EWARS system efficiently”, mentioned Makuil Michael Magok Mayendit County Surveillance Officer, Unity State.
South Sudan is experiencing a number of ailments outbreaks and floods, thus, enhance the chance of transmission of infectious ailments and different well being circumstances corresponding to extreme malnutrition.
Dr John Rumunu, Director Basic for Preventive Well being Providers on the Ministry of Well being mentioned, “given the present humanitarian setting within the nation, an efficient illness surveillance system is important to detecting illness outbreaks rapidly earlier than they unfold”.
“Infectious ailments can price lives and grow to be troublesome to manage if they aren’t detected and responded well timed” mentioned Dr Fabian Ndenzako, WHO Consultant a.i. for South Sudan. “With beneficiant World Financial institution funding, we’re strengthening EWARS reporting by coaching healthcare employees countrywide”.
Earlier than the rollout of EWARS within the South Sudan, the built-in illness surveillance and response (IDSR) weekly reporting charges had been as little as 30%, far beneath the goal of 80%. Following the completion of the EWARS rollout to the well being services, the reporting charges improved and surpassed the goal of 80% on completeness and timeliness of weekly IDSR reporting.
The Ministry of Well being, WHO and companions proceed to strengthen illness surveillance and response to realize the Worldwide Well being Laws of (2005) core capability necessities for surveillance and response.
Technical contacts:
Malick Gai, E-mail: gaim [at] who.int
Rose Dagama, E-mail: dagamaa [at] who.int
