{"id":13374,"date":"2021-03-22T18:26:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cope.it\/progetti\/tanzania-progetto-safe-mami-ospedale-di-nyololo\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:24:29","slug":"tanzania-progetto-safe-mami-ospedale-di-nyololo","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.cope.it\/en\/progetti\/tanzania-progetto-safe-mami-ospedale-di-nyololo\/","title":{"rendered":"TANZANIA-Project \"Safe Mami\", Nyololo Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">From the many years of experience in the health sector of our NGO and the consolidated collaboration between COPE and the Dioceses of Caltagirone and Iringa, the project <strong><em>SAFE MAMI- S<\/em><em>awareness, Literacy, Training, Education <\/em><em>for the Improvement of Maternal and Child Aid, <\/em><\/strong>was born with the ambitious idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding <strong>an Operating Room and starting the Surgery Department<\/strong> at the Rural Health Center of Nyololo.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The general objective is to improve the health conditions <strong>for pregnant women and newborns, <\/strong> reducing the maternal mortality rate by 20% by 2022 and the neonatal-infant mortality rate by 20%.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In the Tanzanian context and district, the mortality levels are in fact around 135 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies for maternal mortality; 8.1 deaths per 1,000 births for neonatal mortality and 9.7 deaths per 1,000 births for mortality of children under five years of age (data from the district health office). <strong>The immediate causes of infant mortality<\/strong> are to be found in <strong>complications that occur during childbirth<\/strong>, a lack of nutritional intake in the diet of both children and pregnant women and in infectious diseases such as malaria, tetanus, ARI (<em>Acute Respiratory Infection<\/em>), diarrhea, AIDS and meningitis. Conversely, <strong>the causes of maternal mortality<\/strong> are mainly <strong>from haemorrhages during childbirth<\/strong>, <strong>postpartum infections, pregnancy hypertension and eclampsia, complications during childbirth and unsafe abortions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It is therefore a priority to facilitate access of the female population to health, surgical and maternal and child care services in the constituencies of Nyololo, Maduma, Mbalamaziwa, Igowele and Bumilainga, increasing the rate of attendance of women and children under 5 years of age to antenatal and postnatal services by 20% in three years.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>Direct beneficiaries<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>About 3,700 women from the villages<\/strong> present in the constituencies in question will benefit from the <strong>information services, education and assistance at childbirth<\/strong> during the three years of the project with the availability of an operating room equipped for caesarean sections with equipment that meets national standards and qualified personnel.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>About 1,200 children who will be born during the implementation period of the project<\/strong> in the project target area who will be able to access quality childbirth assistance services that can protect them from the serious complications that an unassisted birth can cause (disability, infectious diseases). In addition, they will have the opportunity to be followed up to the age of 5 years by the national prenatal and postnatal control and counseling service <em>RCH (Reproductive Child Health)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>60 units of medical personnel from the health facility<\/strong> trained on correct doctor-patient relationship.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>20 government leaders at village and district levels who will be trained on the system of monitoring<\/strong> and reporting of the status of pregnant women within their village\/district;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>50 community health workers will be trained<\/strong> on the ways of relating to patients at community level, and on the system of monitoring and referral to the reference health facilities of patients, especially pregnant women.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>250 medical and nursing students<\/strong> from schools and universities at regional level who will carry out the training internship at the Nyololo Health Center during the three years of the project<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Total direct beneficiaries<\/em>: <em>16,480.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">At the end of the project, an <strong>improvement in health education levels in the population is expected<\/strong> and above all, an <strong>improvement in the quality of the health and surgical service offered<\/strong> with particular attention to the compliance of maternal and child health services with national standards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The activities planned in the three-year period are multiple and multi-sectoral, including:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\">Organization of seminar cycles in 13 villages on health education, especially on health maternal and child health, conducted by health personnel (doctors, nurses and midwives) with the support of government medical personnel and local village authorities (To verify the effectivenessof the seminars, participants will be asked to complete an anonymous test).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\">Promotion of meetings that foster the creation of collaboration protocols between village chiefs, traditional healers and religious leaders<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\">Improvement of the infrastructure of the Nyololo Health Centre aimed at the construction and equipment of the Operating Theatre, Maternity Ward, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Student House;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">As \u200b\u200bregards the <strong><u>Operating Theatre<\/u> within the Nyololo Hospital<\/strong>, this is essential in order to initiate the implementation of improved health services on site, especially with regard to <strong>the treatment of pregnancies and related complications, specifically caesarean sections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>The operating room will also be an essential tool for the technical training of medical and nursing students,<\/strong> who come every year from all over the Iringa Region to carry out their practical training at the Nyololo Health Centre. The students will be supervised by doctors and nurses from the Nyololo Health Centre who specialize in training staff. At the end of their training course, students will be issued a certificate of internship, useful for their future professional career.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The activity also includes the creation of a <strong><u>Maternity Ward<\/u> (MW)<\/strong> including a space used as a <strong><u>Neonatal Intensive Care Unit<\/u><\/strong> <strong>(NICU<\/strong>) to reduce the risk of neonatal mortality.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">To facilitate access to the maternity service and encourage women to give birth in an appropriate health facility, a reception room will be equipped adjacent to the Nyololo health center, where pregnant women can stay safely in the period preceding childbirth. In parallel to this, the expansion of the housing facilities intended to accommodate approximately 80 students each year (<u>studentato<\/u>) will be planned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10285 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cope.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/logo-diocesi-di-caltagirone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"182\" \/>Diocese of Caltagirone<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the many years of experience in the health sector of our NGO and the consolidated collaboration between COPE and the Dioceses of Caltagirone and Iringa, the project SAFE MAMI- Sawareness, Literacy, Training, Education for the Improvement of Maternal and Child Aid, was born with the ambitious idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding an Operating Room and starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12344,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0},"portfolio_category":[143,159],"class_list":["post-13374","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-africa","portfolio_category-salute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cope.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/progetti\/13374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cope.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/progetti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cope.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cope.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cope.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cope.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=13374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}