” Together we are Stronger “: Celebration PHTI Transfer to FMOH
Report by:Haffiya Elyas
In a ceremony today in Khartoum, Sudan, under the Auspices of the Federal Minister of Health in collaboration with the Carter Centre, and A Carter Center delegation from Atlanta headed by CEO Paige Alexander Chief executive officer ,and directors of health programs and representatives of the States , the Federal Ministry of Health received at the Dosa City Conference Hall on Nile Street the Public Health Training Initiative from the Carter Center and the Qatar Development Fund, which includes skills laboratories, books and scientific references, as well as devices and computers, which represents the fourth and final batch targeting health sciences academies and midwifery schools, in addition to continuous training centers. In addition to human resources development, which contributes to provide high quality and professional health services to lead to the promotion and improvement of maternal and child health services in particular and the health situation in general.
Acting Federal Minister of Health, Dr. Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim, said during the inauguration ceremony, “Today, we inaugurate the end of the first phase of training and strengthening the health system through training in public health , through the Academy of Health Sciences and initiative of partners ,the Carter Center and the Qatar Fund for Development, in which an agreement was signed since 2014 that benefited Sudan through various axes, including the preparation, review and revision of training curricula for health cadres, which benefited from training centers and the Academy of Health Sciences, by providing educational aids. The training is represented in books, computers, educational tools, for the various states of Sudan.
Haitham said that this program is a partnership between the Federal Ministry of Health, the Carter Center and the Qatar Fund for Development .
Haitham said that this program is a partnership between the Federal Ministry of Health, the Carter Center and the Qatar Fund for Development, and during the Fund’s work phase, there were a number of universities that worked in this program from America and Britain, where a number of health cadres were trained in the project, in turn, they trained health frameworks, represented by midwives, medical assistants, health assistants, who spread in the parts of Sudan in its various states, serving rural people, through skills and abilities they receive through this program.
Director of the Carter Center, Dr. Sarah Lavinia Fath Al-Rahman said that the Carter Center is working on the Public Health Initiative, an initiative that began in 2014 and was implemented in 2015, saying that the idea of the initiative is to help qualify allied health cadres such as health assistants, midwives, aimed at promoting health by providing cadres in areas that suffer from a shortage of doctors, noting that the initiative worked with the Ministry of Health to review curricula, and introduce new curricula, as well as they worked on Training cadres in public health, and in the skills laboratory, in addition to providing a number of computers that were distributed to 8 states, and aids were distributed to 10 other states in which a need was discovered, thus covering the 18 states, in addition to qualifying cadres, reviewing curricula, bringing in a skills lab and assisting in the rehabilitation of the buildings of the Academy of Health Sciences.
While Director General of the Ministry of Health, Khartoum State, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Qaim, said today, the Federal Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the Carter Center, delivered training aids to the University of Health Sciences, continuing professional development centers for the various states of Sudan, including Khartoum State, saying that we in Khartoum State have technical schools and many institutes of bailiffs, assistants, health visitors, midwives and technical nursing, pointing to the graduation of 319 trainees who were recently graduated, A new preparation has been accepted into technical institutes and will be an auxiliary addition to the development of health professions in the state.